 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...commit myself therefore to you ; determine of it as you shall think good." INSPECTOR, No. 53. No. LXXI. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. POPS. KULIMA, the daughter of Abukazan, was formed for pleasure, and finished for delight. She was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...And trust me, dear ! good humour can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms...wins the soul. So spoke the dame, but no applause ensu'd; 35 Belinda frown'd, Thalestris call'd her Prude. To arms, to arms ! the fierce virago cries,... | |
 | William Taylor - English language - 1813 - 400 pages
...it is a part of speech; and an epithet, in as much as it is an ornament of diction. In the distich, Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll, Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul:— the word prttty is an adjective and an epithet ; it is a part of speech^and an ornament of diction... | |
 | William Taylor - English language - 1813 - 356 pages
...epithet, in as much as it is an ornament of diction. In the distich, Beauties in vain their'pretty eyes may roll, Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul:— the vtord pretty is an adjective and an epithet; it r* a part of speech, and an ornament of dictron... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...trust me, Dear ! good humour can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, .and scolding fail, Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul." It is impossible not to be pleased with the art of this parody. The genealogies of Agamemnon's Sceptre,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...dear ! good humour can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail : Beauties iu vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the sou!." POPE. VIRTUOUS LOVE. DELIGHTFUL task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...with evils ; and as they cannot bt. avoided, the mind ought to be prepared to encounter them. BcIuiic3 in vain their pretty eyes may roll, Charms strike the sight ; but merit -uint the tcul. Beauty, as a flowery blossom, soon fades ; hut the divine excellencies of the mind,... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - American poetry - 1818 - 192 pages
...yearling colts, Not Venus' self the man of sense would bind, Without some portion of Minerva's mind. " Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll, Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul." Yet this fine thing, with neither head nor heart, Is not the fool of nature, hut of art, From earliest... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...•ind trust me, dear, good-humour can prevail, "hen airs, and nights, and screams, and scolding fail; of states, M tile combat Hies. AH side in parties, and begin th' attack ; Fans clap, silks rustle, and tough whalebones... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1821 - 304 pages
...dears, good humour, can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scoldings fail; Beaulies in vain their pretty eyes may roll, Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.' The lines she well understood, but she ^ .Ufound it difficult to explain the nature of a parody. However,... | |
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And trust me, dear ! good-humour can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 
