 | Perse, Juvénal - Latin poetry - 1817 - 596 pages
...some frail china jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or — her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss — a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or — necklace at a ball," &c. VER. 155. No reverence for the table here is found, #c.] Among many absurd, and many impious tenets... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 pages
...some frail China-jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace at a ball ; Or whether heav'n has deem'd that Shock must fall. Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge repair : The fluttering fan be... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1819 - 550 pages
...some frail China jar receive a flaw ; ;. Or stain her honour or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace at a ball ; Or whether heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall. What is called the point of an epigram, consists, for most... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace at a ball; Or whether heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall. What is called the point of an epigram, consists, for most... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace at a ball ; Or whether Heaven strife ; And passions are the elements of life. The general order, since the whole b fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care ; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign ; And, Momentilla, let... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...some frail china-jar receive a flaw : Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall. Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge repair : The fluttering... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...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 brocade ; Forget her...fall. Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge repair : 111 The flutt'ring fan be Zephyretta's care ; NOTES. tended it for a mere piece of raillery ; such... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...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 brocade ; Forget her...fall. Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge repair : 111 The flutt'ring fan be Zephyretta's care ; NOTES. tended it for a mere piece of raillery ; such... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...some frail China-jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, isapprov'd ; That only makes superior sense belov'd. Be niggards of advic Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fa!^ Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge repair : The fluttering... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...some frail china-jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall. Haste then, ye spirits ! to your charge repair : The fluttering... | |
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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; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china... 
