 | 1808 - 408 pages
...slender chaius, U ith hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey/: Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. Th' advent'rous Baron Ihe bright locks adinir'd ; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Kesolv'd... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...chains. ' With hairy springes we the birds betray, ' Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; ' Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair." In these lines, and in all the poem, a slight circum.stance is magnified into something of apparent... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; *pair Th' advent'roiis Baron thebrigrit locks ad mi r'd ; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Resolv'd... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...slender chains ; With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; Fair tresses, man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. Rape of tie Lock, Canto ii. ver. 23. Here the emphasis on each particular requires the first and second... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. The adventurous baron the bright locks admired , He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. Resolved... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight Unes of hair surprise the fiuny prey; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. The adventurous baron the bright locks admired ; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. Resolved... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; s can be had? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : adventurous baron the bright locks admired y He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. Resolv'd... | |
 | 1826 - 82 pages
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. Rape of the Locke, Canto ii. rtr. 23. Here the emphasis on each particular requires the first and second... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...slender chain?. With hairy springes we the birds belray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. Th' adventurous baron the bright locks a jmir'tl; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Resolv'd... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pages
....Shalupeari. Her swelling breast Naked met his, under the flowing gold Of her loose treat» hid. Milton. Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope. TRESTLE-TREES, in ship-building, two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally on the opposite... | |
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With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial... 
