 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 pagina’s
...man's protected but thy foe, Grant, gracious heav'n ! I ever may be so ! CUPID'S MISTAKE. AT Lanra's feet the God of Love His arrows and his quiver lays,...has a throne above, And with this lovely creature stays. Not Venus* beanties are more bright But each appears so like the other, That Cupid has mistook... | |
 | 1812 - 156 pagina’s
...let them starve, just as they did before. CCCLX. The last Test. 134 CCCLX. Cupid Mistaken* At Laura's feet the God of love His arrows and his quiver lays...has a throne above, And with this lovely creature stays. Not Venus' beauties are more bright ; But each appears so like the other, That Cupid has mistook... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 584 pagina’s
...Beauty and Wit strive each in vain, To vanquish Bacchus and his train ; But Barton with successful charms, From both their quivers drew her arms, The roving god his sway resigns, And cheerfully submits his vines." Art. MONTAGUE, Biographia Britannica, vol. vp 3156,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 pagina’s
...Beauty and wit strove, each in vain, To vanquish Bacchus and his train ; But Barton, with successful charms, From both their quivers drew her arms. The roving god his sway resigns, And awfully submits his vines." Mr. Maynwaring neatly insinuates his compliment to Marlborough... | |
 | 1857 - 496 pagina’s
...Beauty and wit strove, each in vain, To vanquish Bacchus and his train ; But Barton, with successful charms, From both their quivers drew her arms. The roving god his sway resigns, And awfully submits his vines." Mr. Maynwaring neatly insinuates his compliment to Marlborough... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 pagina’s
...Mrs. Barton, are very similar to Tebaltius' epigram (Nichols' " Collection of Poems," V. 170, 1782) : At Barton's feet the god of Love His arrows and his...has a throne above, And with this lovely creature staya. Not Venus' beauties are more bright, But each appear so like the other, That Cupid has mistook... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pagina’s
...Mrs. Barton, are very similar to Tebaltius' epigrnm (Nichols1 "Collection of Poems," V. 170, 1782): At Barton's feet the god of Love His arrows and his quiver lays, Forgets he has a throne above, Not Venus' beauties are more bright, But each appear so like the other, That Cupid has mistook the... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pagina’s
...bid my Rosa's lips bestow The kiss, and yours I will forego. CUPID'S MISTAKE. AT Laura's feet the Gou of Love His arrows and his quiver lays, Forgets he has a throne above, And with this lovely creature stays. Not Venus' beauties are more bright, But each appear so like the other, That Cupid has mistook... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pagina’s
...Beauty and wit strove, each in vain, To vanquish Bacchus and his train ; But Barton with successful charms, From both their quivers drew her arms. The roving God his sway resigns, And awfully submits his vines. In Spence's Anecdotes (note) is the following additional... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pagina’s
...Beauty and wit strove, each in vain, To vanquish Bacchus and his train ; But Barton with successful charms, From both their quivers drew her arms. The roving God his sway resigns, And awfully submits his vines. In Spence's Anecdotes (note) is the following additional... | |
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Beauty and wit strove, each in vain, To vanquish Bacchus and his train ; But Barton with successful charms, From both their quivers drew her arms. The roving God his sway resigns, And awfully submits his vines. 
