 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 pages
...host I blame. The same where the separation is made at the close of the first line of the couplet : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. The pause is tolerable even at the close of the couplet, for the reason just now suggested, that inverted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. A SYLPH am I, who thy protection claim, A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Late, as I ranged... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1860 - 416 pages
...host I blame. The same when the separation is made at the close of the first line of the couplet : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease, Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. The pause is tolerable even at the close of the couplet, for the reason just now suggested, that inverted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome In search of mischief still...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, freed... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. Pope, R. of LI 51. TBANSPOBT— see Passion . On such a theme 'tis impious to be calm ; Passion is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and nutter in the fields of air. ' Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...Soft yielding minds to 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 sylplfs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. What guards the purity of melting... | |
 | 1884 - 770 pages
...realized my discomfiture, and after repeated approaches and withdrawals, it rose on wing, and with " The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." SHORT NOTES ON COLEĂ“PTERA. BY JOHN HAMILTON, MD, ALLEGHENY, PA. Hololepta fossularis Say. The habitatio... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...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, freed... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pages
...O'er some new-open'd grave, and (strange to tell,) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. BLAIR'S Gract. For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. Port 29S GHOST -SUPERSTITION. Matrons who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.... | |
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Soft yielding minds to 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... 
