| Lindley Murray - English language - 1815 - 382 pages
...was the introduction of the Trochee, to form the first foot of an heroic verse : as, Favours to n6ne, to all she smiles extends, O'ft she rejects but never once offends. Each of these lines begins with a Trochee ; the remaining feet are in the Iambic movement. In the following... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once ofiends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...By foreign hands || thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands II thy humble grave adorn'd. Again: Bright as the sun || her eyes the gazers strike; And, like the sun || they shine on all alike. Speaking of nature, or the God of nature : Warms in the sun || refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1818 - 320 pages
...Of this nature was the introduction of the Trochee, to form the first foot of an heroic verse : as, Favours to none, to all she smiles extends, O'ft she rejects, but never onee offends. Each of these lines begins with a Trochee ; the remaining feet are in the Iambic movement.... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...infidels adore ; Her lively looks I a sprightly mind disclose, Quick, as her eyes, | and as unfix'd as those. Favours to none, | to all she smiles extends, Oft she rejects, | bat never once offends. When the pause falls after the fifth syllable, dividing the line into two... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends...once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strilee, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet fracefnl ease, and sweetness void of pride,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...unfix'd an thuse : Favoors to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejeets, hut never once oflends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And,...sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetuess void of pride, Alight hide her faults, if helles had faults to hide • If to her share some... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unftVd as those : • "J^ Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she...never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gaiers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unhVd Vet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...calorisque largitur." Quintil. de Instil. Oral, lib. ic ii. And Pope, Rape of the Lock, cant. ii. v. 14 : " Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, " And, like the sun, they shine on all alike." HOLT WHITE. 2 — THEN mean, &c.] Old copy — That mean. MALONE. As this stood, it was a most perplexed... | |
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