 Pleasures the sex, as children Birds, pursue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view; Sure, if they catch, to spoil the Toy at most, To covet flying, and regret when lost: At last, to follies Youth could scarce defend...  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral ... - Сторінка 136автори: Alexander Pope - 1787Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 стор.
...happinefs at home. But Wifdom's triumph is well-tim'd Retreat, 22^ As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown, Yet hate repofe, and dread to be No tinued : That the Second is, as it were, forced upon them by the tyranny and oppreffibn of man,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 стор.
...happinefs at home. But Wifdom's triumph is well-tim'd Retreat, 225 As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown, Yet hate repofe, and dread to be alone, NOTES. VER. 213. Experience this, fcf<\] The ironical apology Continued : That the Second is, as it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 234 стор.
...happinefs at home. But Wifdom's triumph is well-tim'd Retreat, 225 As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown,...purfue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view i VER. 216. But ev'ry Wnman is at htart a Rah: ] " Some " men (fays the poet) take to bufinefs, fome... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 402 стор.
...pleafure his bufinefs. VER. 219. What are the Aims and the Fate of this fex.— J. As to Power. P. Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown,...Worn out in public, weary ev'ry eye, Nor leave one ugh behind them when they die. Pleafures the fex, as children Birds, purfue, 231 Still out of reach,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 стор.
...home. " But Wildom's triumph is well-tim'd Re" treat, " As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! " Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs *' grown,..." Nor leave one figh behind them when they " die." Good fenfe, ftrong fatire, and fine poetry are happily combined in this paffage. : there is great merit... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 стор.
...home. ** But Wiidom's triumph is wcll-tim'd Re" treat, *' As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! " Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs " grown,...Nor leave one figh behind them when' they " die." / Good fenfc, ftrong fatire, and fine poetry are happily combined in this paflage : there is great... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 стор.
...home. " But Wiidom's triumph is well-tim'd Re" treat, " As hard a fcience to the Fair as Great ! " Beauties, like Tyrants, old and friendlefs " grown, " Yet hate repofe, and dread to he alone, *' Worn out in public, weary ev'ry eye, " Nor leave one figh behind them when they " die."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 стор.
...happinefs at home. But Wifdom's triumph is well-tim'd Retreat, As hard a feience to the Fair as Great ! Beauties, like Tyrants old and friendlefs grown, Yet hate repofe, and dread to be alone, "Worn out in publie, weary every eye, Nor leave one figh behind them when they die. Pleafures the fex, as children... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 стор.
...a science to the fair as great ! Beauties, like tyrants, old and friendless grown, Yet hate repose and dread to be alone ; Worn out in public, weary ev'ry eye, Nor leave one sigh behind them when they dye. 230 Pleasures the sex, as children birds, pursue, Still out of reach,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 стор.
...Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown, Yet hate repofe, and dread to be alone, Worn-out in public, weary every eye, Nor leave one figh behind them, when they die....reach, yet never out of view ; Sure, if they catch, to fpo:l the Toy at moft, To covet flying, and regret when loft : At laft, to follies Youth could fcarce... | |
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