 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 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 deserved a watchful spirit's care ; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 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 descrv'da watchful spirit's care ; Some dire disaster, or by force, or flight... | |
 | Kathleen Knox - English language - 1882 - 156 pages
...hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; 70 Nay, oft in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce or add a furbelow. This day, black omens threat the brightest Pair That e'er deserved a watchful spirit's care, Some dire disaster, or by force, or flight... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...black omens threat the brightest Fair That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or flight ; 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 honor, or her new brocade,... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 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 flight;... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1906 - 326 pages
...brightest fair That e'er deserved a watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by 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... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1906 - 318 pages
...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 deserved a watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force or slight... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, 100 To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. 'This day, black omens threat the brightest fair, Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or -where, the fates have wrapt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Catholics - 1906 - 198 pages
...That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care ; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; /'"-'tfctvy , But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, 105 Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour or her new... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 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 deserved a 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... 
