 | English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...pain us least when exquisitely keen.' Or this happy description of ' Modesty,' by Aaron Hill — ' As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all.' The same writer deserves the credit of the words, if not of the philosophy,... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1865 - 602 pages
...least when exquisitely keen.' Or this happy description of ' Modesty,' by Aaron Hill — ' As lamps bum silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all.' The same writer deserves the credit of the words, if not of the philosophy,... | |
 | 1865 - 642 pages
...exquisitely keen.' Or this happy description of ' Modesty' by Aaron Hill — 'As lamps barn silent witti unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all.' The same writer deserves the credit of the words, if not the philosophy,... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.' Or this happy description of ' Modesty,' by Aaron Hill— ' As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. TJnaimmg charms with edge resistless fall, And she who moans no mischief does it all.' The same writer... | |
 | Henry Drury - English poetry - 1865 - 424 pages
...Mortalesque viros tarnen immortalis in altuni Receperit sedile numinum chorus. csc 19 As lamps bum silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright: TJnaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. AAEON HILL.... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...errata will appear at the end. SENTIMENTAL, MORAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL. OALLANT. UNOBTRUSIVE BEAUTY. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. ON PAETING. You ask hour long I'll stay from thee :] Suppress these rising fears ; If you should reckon... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 396 pages
...Loves around Remarked how ill we all dissembled. -3? -y. Cjill. fBoRN 1684-5. I749-5O.] MODESTY. S lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. SONG. H ' forbear to bid me slight her, Soul and senses take her part;... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Indulge, and to thy genius freely give ; For not to live at ease, is not to live. Dryden, Persins, v . As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. Aaron Hill. Dase leads to habit, as success to ease, He lives by rule... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...disputants, like rams and bulls, Do fight with arms that spring from skulls. Ibid., Canto 2. MODESTY. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. A. HIIX. NOTHING can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1867 - 410 pages
...improve, For who would teach you but the verb " I love." Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. ccxxxvir. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. Aaron Hill. ccxxxvm. I LOVED thee, beautiful and kind, And plighted... | |
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As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. 
