| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 578 pages
...fuch rage, refenttnent, and defpair. As thou, fad virgin ! for thy ravilh'd hair. Firft and third. • Think what an equipage thou haft in air. And view with fcorn two pages and a chair. Again : • What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight-mafquerades, Safe... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...Know, then, unnumbered Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower fky t Thefe, tho' unfeen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the Box, and hover...thou haft in air, And view with fcorn two Pages and a Chajr. As now your own, our beings were of old, And once inclos'd in Woman's beauteous mould ; Thence,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...round the Ring. Think what an equipage thou haft in air, And view with fcorn two Pages and a Chajr. As now your own, our beings were of old, And once inclos'd in Woman's beauteous mould ; Thence, by a foft tranfition, we repair From earthly vehicles to thefe of air. Think not, when... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1772 - 398 pages
...felt fuch rage, refentment, and defpair, As thou, fad virgin ! for thy raviuVd hair. Firft and third. Think what an equipage thou haft in air, And view with fcorn two pages and a ch»ir. Again : What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight mafquerades,... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...then, unnumber'd spirits round thee fly, The light militia of the lower sky ; These, though unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the box, and hover round the ring. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, 45 And view with scorn two pages and a chair. As now your own, our beings were of old,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...the wing, Hang o'er the Box, and hover round the Ring. Think what an equipage thou haft in air, 45 And view with fcorn two Pages and a Chair. As now...were of old, And once inclos'd in Woman's beauteous mould3 Thence, by a foft tranfitionj we repair From earthly vehicles to thefe of air. 50 Think not,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 400 pages
...&c.] All the verfes from hence to the end of this Canto were added afterwards. Thefe, though unfeen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the Box, and hover...the Ring. Think what an equipage thou haft in air, 4.5 And view with fcorn two Pages and a Chair. As now your own, our beings were of old, And once inclos'd... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...&c.] All the verfes from hence to the end of this Canto were added afterwards. Thefe, though unfeen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the Box, and hover round the Ring. Think what an equipage tnou haft in air, 4,3 And view with fcorn two Pages and a Chair. As now your own, our beings were of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 406 pages
...round the Ring. Think what an equipage thou haft in air, 45 And view with fcorn two Pages and a Chain As now your own, our beings were of old, And once inclos'd in Woman's beauteous mould ; Thence, by a foft tranfition, we repair From earthly vehicles to thefe of air. 50 Think not,... | |
| English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...then, unnumber'd fpirits round thee fly, ' The light militia of the lower fey ; ' Thefe, tho' unfeen, are ever on the wing, ' Hang o'er the box, and hover...of old, • And once inclos'd in woman's beauteous mould ; • Thence by a foft tranfition we repair ' From earthly vehicles to thofe of air. ' Think... | |
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