 Safe from the treach'rous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, 75 When music softens, and when dancing fires? Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho' Honour is...  Bell's Edition - Pagina 79door John Bell - 1796Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pagina’s
...: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease 69 Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pagina’s
...embraced : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pagina’s
...cmbrac'd : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, this daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pagina’s
...embraced : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pagina’s
...of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherousfriends,the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the...dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires ! 'Tis but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pagina’s
...embrac'd : For, spirits, freed frem mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. ous to perform. Shook sudden from the bosom of the sky, Л thousand shapes or glide athwart the du treacherous friend, the daring spark. The glance hy day, the whisper in the dark, | When kind occasion... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pagina’s
...embrac'd : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. but spare. . Ah .' treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pagina’s
...what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair. Again: Again: Again: What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly...spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark f With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three am'rous sighs to raise the fire; Then... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pagina’s
...embraced : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, 'Tis but their sylph,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pagina’s
...embraced : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
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