 | John Bell - English drama - 1792 - 340 pages
...am'rous wishes, And opens a wide field to vast desire ; I know, that at my will I might possess; That, wasting tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, And bless contending beauties. 1 might speak, Serenely slothful, from within my palace, And bid my pleasure... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 456 pages
...am'rous wishes, And opens a wide field to vast desire; I know, that at my will I might possess; That, wasting tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, And bless contending beauties. 1 might speak, Serenely slothful, from within my palace, And bid my pleasure... | |
 | English drama - 1804 - 486 pages
...am'rous wishes, And opens a wide field to vast desire ; I know, that at my will I might possess ; That, wasting tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, And bless contending beauties. I might speak, Serenely slothful, from within my palace, And bid my pleasure... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 348 pages
...am'rous wishes, And opens a wide field to vast desire; I know, that at my will I might possess ; That, wasting tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, And bless contending beauties. I might speak, Serenely slothful, from within my palace, And bid my pleasure... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 626 pages
...am'rous wishes, And opens a wide field to vast desire; I know, tliat at mv will 1 might possess ; That, wasting tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, And bless contending beauties. I might speak, Serenely slothful, from within my palace, And bid my pleasure... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 620 pages
...am'rous wishes, And opens a wide field to vast desire ; I know, that at my will I might possess ; That, wasting tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, And bless contending beauties. I might speak, Serenely slothful, from within my palace, And bid my pleasure... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Great Britain - 1814 - 430 pages
...empire to me, but their tasies they gave not." Powerful prompting got him through the first six lines decently enough, till he came to " wasting tenderness...I might look down to my surrounded feet, • " And bless contending beauties." VOL. III. F At this he bungled sadly — his hearing suddenly failing as... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 418 pages
...gave not." Powerful prompting got him through, the first six lilies decently enough, till he cartie to " wasting tenderness in wild profusion, " I might look down to my surrounded feet, * And bless contending beauties." VOL. III. F At this he bungled sadly — his hearing suddenly failing as... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 416 pages
...P.owerful -prorating got him through the first six lines decently enough, till he came to • i. i '" . . . .'''wasting tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, , And bless contending beauties.'' VOL. 1U. F At this he bungled sadly — his hearing suddenly failing as... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 416 pages
...-prorating got him through the first six lines decently enough, till he came to " . . . .'" wastrng tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, : i And bless contending beauties.'" VOL. m. r At this he bungled sadly — his hearing suddenly failing... | |
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At this he bungled sadly — his hearing suddenly failing as well as his memory, there was a dead stop. In vain the prompter, the... 
