 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotago now And swift expires a driveller and a show. * The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphe of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom Pleasure keeps too... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...wise ! From Maryborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race. Begs for...Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ;. And Sedly curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eye*, Whom pleasure keeps... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...flow,. And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show. "The teeming mother, anxious for her rtoe, •"• Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane...what ills from beauty spring ;. And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.^* Ye nymphs of rosy 1J£S_ and radiant eyes, Whom pleasure keeps too busy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes there is the following passage : The teeming mother auxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane, etc. " Lord Hailes told him [Johnson] he was mistaken in the instances he had given of unfortunate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...lines in question : •• In Dr. Johnson's VANITY or HuMAxWisHi», there is the following passage : " has many below him ; and perhaps he has not six of his years above him; — perhaps not one. Tho 4с. [1749, been long kept back for want of encouragement. But in this benevolent purpose he met with... | |
 | Eton miscellany - 1827 - 532 pages
...the arms of a cook-maid. Dr. Johnson, in his spirited poem, " The Vanity of Human Wishes," says, " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a ," not face (for every child is like its mother, and every mother handsome, in her own opinion ; the... | |
 | 1831 - 790 pages
...wise ! From Marlb'rough'seyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a dnv'ller and a show. *The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom Pleasure keeps too busy to be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...lordship can distinguish so " In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes there is the following passage : " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs, for each birth, the fortune of a face : Vet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedk-y cursed the charms which pleased a king."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...danger attending on female beauty is mentioned, has very generally, I believe, been misunderstood : , " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king." tragedy, which had been long kept back for want of encouragement. But in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...danger attending on female beauty is mentioned, has very generally, I believe, been misunderstood : " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king." tragedy, which had been long kept back for want of encouragement. But in... | |
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The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. 
