 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pagina’s
...be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And...wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away ; The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd ; Content with poverty my soul I arm ; And virtue,... | |
 | Horace - 1861 - 372 pagina’s
...ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of bfe. I can enjoy her while she "s kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away ; The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd ; Content with poverty my soul I arm ; And virtue,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 pagina’s
...partiality, but equity in God, * Cf. Bp. Butler's xvth Sermon, t So Dryden : — " But when she dances on the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away." who deals with us but as our natural parents : those that are able of body and mind he leaves to their... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pagina’s
...be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in sJrife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd Content with poverty, my soul I arm j And virtue,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pagina’s
...be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in slrife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'c* Content with poverty, my soul I arm j And virtue,... | |
 | William P. Nimmo - 1866 - 542 pagina’s
...some of the Horatian philosophy, which you have latterly so much forgotten : ' I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the flirting thing away.' These used to be favourite lines with you." " Alas, alas !" he exclaimed, grasping... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 432 pagina’s
...be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And...wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly resign'd : Content with poverty, my soul I arm ; And... | |
 | 1867 - 526 pagina’s
...some of the Horatian philosophy, which you have latterly so much forgotten : 'I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the flirting thing away.' These used to be favourite lines with you." " Alas, alas !" he exclaimed, grasping... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 pagina’s
...still, But with^^HKpation to be ill, Promott ^^Ht, delights in strife, ittery of life. : she's kind ; I in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly resign' d : Content with poverty, my soul I arm ; And... | |
 | 1873 - 860 pagina’s
...what the poet says of " Popularity : " " I will applaud her when she's kind, But when she dances on the wind And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the runagate away 1 " Thackeray said of American women that they were "handsome, discontented creatures."... | |
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I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away... 
