 | John Dryden - 1808 - 496 pages
...lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly resigned ; Content with poverty my soul I arm, And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. X. What... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 490 pages
...lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly resigned ; Content with poverty my soul I arm, And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. X. What... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly resigned ; . Content with poverty, my soul I arm, And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. What... | |
 | 1812 - 524 pages
...ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife. And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind, But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave, is quietly pesign'd: Content with... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...because it would have offended pagan piety, we think him decidedly wrong. I can enjoy her when she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away. " Is this what Horace says ? " asks Mr. Rose: now the question properly should be, " Is this in the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1825 - 728 pages
...manentemf or— to use the more beautiful paraphrase of Dryden; — " I can applaud her, — while she's kind ; — But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...and will not stay,— I puff the prostitute away." Yes Sir, I love, I covet, I enjoy popularity; but I will not court it by the surrender of my conscientious... | |
 | 1826 - 860 pages
...wasfourfo mantntem, and he should add, in the language of Dryden — " I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff theproetitute away" (cheers and laughter) He would not court her by the surrender of his judgment or... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 550 pages
...,." or — to use the more beautiful paraphrase of Dryden: — " I can applaud her — while she's kind ; — But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...and will not stay, — I puff the prostitute away." Yes, Sir, I love, I covet, I enjoy popularity ; but I will not court it by the surrender of my conscientious... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...the clearing North will puff the clouds away. Dryden s VirgU't Georgia. I can enjoy her while she's kind, But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I pujf the prostitute away. Dryden. An injudicious poet, who aims at loftiness, runs into the swelling... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - 1830 - 484 pages
...manentem ;" or, to use the more beautiful paraphrase of Dryden :— " I can applaud her—when she's kind ;— But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...and will not stay,— I puff the prostitute away." Yes, sir, I love, I covet, I enjoy popularity ; but I will not court it by the surrender of my conscientious... | |
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I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away. 
