 | 1808 - 408 pages
...waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. This day black omens threat the brighten fair That e'er dcserv'da watchful spirit's care ; Some dire disaster, or by force, or flight,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. ' This day black omens threat the brightest fair That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care ; Some dire disaster, or by force or slight... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas - English fiction - 1808 - 294 pages
...black omens threat the brighteft fair That ere deferv'da watchful fpirit's care. Some dire difafler, or by force or flight But what or where the fates have wrapped in night. v IOLETTA, alone with Grouvelle, in a folitary foreft obfcured by the fhade of night,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To ay't My soul took hold on t:icc. brightest fair That e'crdeserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dira disaster, or b^y force, or slight,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs j Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To 'change a flounce, or add a furbelow. " This day, black omens threat the brightest fait That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care: Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight... | |
 | Albius Tibullus - 1812 - 386 pages
...brightest fair. That e'er deterv'da watchful spiru's care ; Some dire disaster, or hy force, or slight : But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 816 pages
...tick almoft to doomfJay with eclipfe. Skakefpearf. a. Misfortune; grief; mifhap; miftfry ; calamity. This day black omens threat the brighteft fair, That e'er deferv'da watchful fpirit's care, Some dire difajler, or by force or flight ; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Pope. * To DISASTER.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 pages
...waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. This day, black omens threat the brightest fair That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care ; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To t, our doom is, we shall die ! How dies the serpent ? he hath eat'n brightest fair That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care : Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. " This day, black omens threat the brightest fair That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care : Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight... | |
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But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs... 
