water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. My Study Windows - Página 412por James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 433 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 páginas
...This fragile beauty is made the emblem of coquetry, because its flowers seldom last a second day. " The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air." Pope. Tloral imhlrnis . . V. . • to Jj COURAGE. BLACK POPLAR.—Populus nigra. " A double wreath... | |
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a salamander's name. Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. . ' Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...lien' termagants in ñame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name. Soft yielding minds to water elide ' , stilt on earth to roam. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 páginas
...La!l. prudentialPRI 'DISH, adj. $ A woman affectedly nice and scrupulous : affectedly grave or nice. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome. In search of mischief, still on earth to roam, ¡'opt Not one careless thought intrudes. Less modest than the speech of prudes. Sirilt. 1 know you... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...The sprites of ticry termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name. Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental...Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the Melds of air. ' Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1831 - 384 páginas
...The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a salamander's name. Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. " Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 páginas
...of the fair :' and they are alluded to in the second chapter of Le Diable Boiteux,' &c. POPE. i. o The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search...roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of air. ' Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects... | |
| 1836 - 436 páginas
...The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name. Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. " Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph cmbrac'd : For, spirits,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name. Sott yielding minds ank my stars) my whole commission ends, The players and I are, luckily, no friends. Fired that ' Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For, spirits,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 páginas
...glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. JTie graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome-, *n search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. ' Know farther yet ; whoever, fair and chaste, Hejccta mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For spirits,... | |
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