 Pleasures the sex, as children Birds, pursue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view; Sure, if they catch, to spoil the Toy at most, To covet flying, and regret when lost: At last, to follies Youth could scarce defend...  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral ... - Page 136by Alexander Pope - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...eye, Nor leave one figh behind them when they die. »J8 Pleafures the fex, as children Birds, purlue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view; Sure, if...at moft, To covet flying, and regret when loft : At hft, to follies Youth could fcarce defend, >3S It grows their Age's prudence to pretend; Amam'd to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 392 pages
...happinefs at home. But Wifdom's triumph is well-tim'd Retreat, *2$ As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown, Yet hate repofe, and dread to be alone, Worn-out in public, weary every eye, Nor leave one figh behind them when they die. 230 Pleafures the... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...happinefs at home. But Wifdom's triumph is weil-tim'd Retreat, 225 As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown, Yet hate repofe, and dread to be alone, Worn-out in public, weary every eye, Nor leave one ligh behind them when they die. 230 Pleafures the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...ev'ry eye, Nor leave one ligli behind them when they die. Pleafurcs the fcx, as children Birds puriue; ow heath I point, and Banftcd-down; •Thence comes your mutton, and thcfc chicks my own : From yo flving, and regret when loft: At laft, to follies Youth could fcarce defend, It grows their Age's piudence... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...Nor leave one figh behind them when they die. •Pleafurcs the fex, as children birds, purfue, »31 Still out of reach, yet never out of view ; Sure, if they catch, to fpoil the toy at mod, To covet flying, and regret when lod : At lall, to follies youth could fcarce defend. It grows... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...eye, Nor leave one figh behind them when they die. Pleafure« the fex, as children bird*, pntfue, *J1 Still out of reach, yet never out of view ; Sure, if they catch, to fpoil the toy at mod, To covet flying, and regret when loft : At lad, to follies youth could fcarce defend, It grows... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...well-tim'd retreat, As hard a fciencc to the fair as great I Beauties, like tyrants, old and .'Vicndlefs grown, Yet hate repofe, and dread to be alone; Worn out in public, weary cv'ry eye, Nor leave one figh behind them -.vhcn they die, PIcafurcs the fex, as children birds purfuc... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 384 pages
...at home. But Wifdom's triumph, is well-tim'd Retreat, 225 As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown,...Still out of reach, yet never out of view ; Sure, NOTES. VER. 216. But ev'ry Woman is at heart a Rale .•] This line has given offence : but in behalf... | |
 | English literature - 1799 - 334 pages
...and plunges the mind into more real diftrefs than that from which it proraifed to relieve it. . . — Pleafures the fex, as children birds purfue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view. The lover of dancing cenfures the amufe^ ments of the theatre for their dulnefs, ana the gamefter blames... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...figh behind thi-m when they die. 230; Kept drofc for DutchelTes, the world mall know it, 1'leafures, the fex, as children birds, purfue, Still out of reach,...of view; . Sure, if they catch, to fpoil the toy at molt. To covet flying, and regret when loll : Atlad, to follies Youth could fcarce defend, 135 Itjrrows... | |
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