 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...This makes him over-forward in business, maiming in conversation, and peremptory in answers. Collier, For spirits freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. Pope. This, when the various god had urg'd in vain. He strait assum'd his native form again. Id. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude dward Melds of air. ' Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...and they are alluded to in the second chapter of Le Diable Boiteux,' &c. POPE. i. o The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of air. ' Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects... | |
 | 1836 - 428 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...what shapes they please. What guards the purity of meltmg maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, tin: daring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...Sott yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude s. Fired that embraced : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 436 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...fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph cmbrac'd : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. JTie graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome-, *n search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light...air. ' Know farther yet ; whoever, fair and chaste, Hejccta mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sink» downward to a gnume, ring powers One in their nature, which arc two in...as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced : For spirits, freed... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 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...fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shape they please.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide a» ay, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude fect so rare ? Here matter new to gaze the Devil met...sight no obstacle found here, nor shade, But all sun- nir. "Know farther yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Svlph embrac'd : For, spirits,... | |
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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... 
