 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pagina’s
...prude sinks downward to a gnome, In aearch of mischief still on earth to roam ; The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, (% And sport and flutter in the fields of air." " Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 146 pagina’s
...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 of air. ' Know further yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1801 - 140 pagina’s
...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 of air. ' Know further yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd: For spirits,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pagina’s
...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 of air. The description of the * toilette, which succeeds, is judiciously given in such magnificent terms as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pagina’s
...prude sinks downward to a gnome, IQ search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. " Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is hy some sylph emhrac'd : For spirits,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pagina’s
...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 of air. ' Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pagina’s
...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 of air. ' Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste • Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pagina’s
...prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to main. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, -And sport and flutter in the fields of air. " Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embrac'd : For, spirits,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pagina’s
...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 of air. Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagina’s
...prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light coquettes hing will please the difficult and nice, Or nothing more than still " Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embrac'd : For, spirits,... | |
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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 of air. 
