Thou wild thing, that always art leaping or aching, What black, brown, or fair, in what clime, in what nation, By turns has not taught thee a pit-a-patation ? Bentley's Miscellany - Page 553edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...heart without motion, tho' Celia pass by ! Not the beauty she has, or the wit that she borrows, Gives the eye any joys, or the heart any sorrows. When our Sappho appears, she whose wit's so refin'd, I am forc'd to applaud with the rest of mankind; Whatever she says, is with spirit... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...heart without motion, tho' Celia pass by ! Not the beauty she has, or the wit that she borrows, Gives the eye any joys, or the heart any sorrows. When our Sappho appears, she whose wit's so refin'd, I am forc'd to applaud with the rest of mankind ; Whatever she says, is with spirit... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pages
...heart without motion, tho' Celia pass by ! Not the beauty she has, or the wit that she borrows, Gives the eye any joys, or the heart any sorrows. When our Sappho appears, she whose wit's so refin'd, I am forc'd to applaud with the rest of mankmd ; Whatever she says, is with spirit... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1806 - 546 pages
...without motion, though Caelia pass by ! Not the beauty she has, nor the wit that she borrows, Gives the eye any joys, or the heart any sorrows. " When our Sappho appears — she whose wit so refin'd J am forc'd to applaud with the rest of mankind ; Whatever she says, is with spirit and fire,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 384 pages
...heart without motion, tho' Celia pass by ! Not the beauty she has, or the wit that she borrows., Gives the eye any joys, or the heart any sorrows. When our Sappho appears, she whose wit 's so refin'd, I am forc'd to applaud with the rest of mankind; Whatever she says, is with spirit and... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...heart without motion, tho' Celia pass by! Not the beauty she has, or the wit that she borrows, Gives the eye any joys, or the heart any sorrows. When our Sappho appears, she whose wit's so refin'd, I am forc'd to applaud with the rest of mankind; Whatever she says, is with spirit... | |
| Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - 478 pages
...the wild thing gave this sober reply : — " See, the heart without motion, though Celia pass by ! Not the beauty she has, not the wit that she borrows,...mankind — Whatever she says is with spirit and fire ; Ev'ry word I attend, hut I only admire. " Prudentia as vainly would put in her claim, Ever gazing... | |
| 1824 - 762 pages
...heart without motion, though Celia pass by ! Not the beauty she has, not the wit that she borrow*, Give the eye any joys, or the heart any sorrows. "...mankind — Whatever she says is with spirit and fire ; Ev'ry word I attend, but I only admire. " ' Prudentia as vainly would put in her claim, Ever gazing... | |
| Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - 486 pages
...clime, in what nation, By turns has not taught thee a pit-a-patation ?" " When our Sappho appears—she, whose wit so refined I am forced to applaud with the...mankind— Whatever she says is with spirit and fire ; Ev'ry word I attend, but I only admire. " Prudentia as vainly would put in her claim, Ever gazing... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 476 pages
...accused, the wild thing gave this sober reply:— ' See, the heart without motion, though Celia pass by! Not the beauty she has, not the wit that she borrows,...any joys, or the heart any sorrows. When our Sappho appears,—she, whose wit so refined I am forced to applaud with the rest of mankind— Whatever she... | |
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