 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
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pagina’s
...: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly...sylph, the wise celestials know, Though honour is the name with men below. so For life predestined to the gnomes' embrace. These swell their prospects and... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pagina’s
...: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 7° What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly...sylph, the wise celestials know, Though honour is the name with men below. 80 For life predestined to the gnomes' embrace. These swell their prospects and... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 pagina’s
...the purity of melting maids, 71 In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper...dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires? 76 'Tis but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pagina’s
...embraced; For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly...desires, 75 When music softens, and when dancing fires? T is but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though honour is the word with men below. Some nymphs... | |
 | Samuel Swayze Seward - 1909 - 542 pagina’s
...Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly halls and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treach'rous...dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires? "Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho' Honour... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1909 - 132 pagina’s
...: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 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... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1176 pagina’s
...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...desires, 75 When music softens, and when dancing fires? *T is but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though honor is the word with men below. Some nymphs... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 pagina’s
...the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous sigh'd, and said amang them a', «5 ' Ye are na Mary Morison.' O Mary, canst thou n When music softens, and when dancing fires? 'Tis but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pagina’s
...the purity of melting maids, 71 In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous ough, my phthisic, and my gout, My apoplexy, palsy, When music softens, and when dancing fires J 'Tis but their sylph, the wise celestials knon. Though... | |
 | 1911 - 784 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...Safe from the treach'rous friend, the daring spark, glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens,... | |
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