 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pagina’s
...upon a more slender foundation, as I (hall presently show. The lines alluded to are the following : But what success. VANESSA met, Is to the world a secret yet : Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantick strain ; Or whether he at last... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pagina’s
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet : Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain, Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pagina’s
...is wise enough to read a lady's eyes, and will each accidental glance interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met, is to the world a secret yet : whether the nymph, to please her swain, talks in a high romantic strain; or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 524 pagina’s
...is wist Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet, Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pagina’s
...narrative, or the perusal of the correspondence between the lovers. It begins with the well known lines, Bat -what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet, &c. I To what purpose these lines were introduced, whether from Swift's usual vein of humour, which never... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pagina’s
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pagina’s
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, A nd will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet : Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain, Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. 2/ Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or wheth'er he at lasts descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1826 - 334 pagina’s
...precedmg narrative, or the perusal of the correspondence between the lovers. It begins with the well-known lines, — But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet, etc. To what purpose these lines were introduced, whether from Swift's usual vein of humour, which... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 pagina’s
...preceding narrative, or the perusal of the correspondence hetween the lovers. It hegins with the well-known lines, — But what success Vanessa met, Is to the...jocularly to intimate the danger attending the intimacy hetween Cadenus and Vanessa, it were in vain to inquire. But to hrand Swift as a seducer, and Miss... | |
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But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or to compound the business, whether They temper love... 
