 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
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 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...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 William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - 1911 - 1196 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 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 - 1963 - 884 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...kind Occasion prompts their warm Desires, 75 When Musick softens, and when Dancing fires ? 50. Vehicles] 'The Platonists doe chiefly take notice of Three... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pagina’s
...human activity at all, but 'laws of nature' imposed from elsewhere. Or, as the poem slyly puts it, "Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, / Though Honour is the Word with Men below' (I, 77-8). Pope's echo of a Dryden couplet here (from The Hind and the Panther), is not without significance:... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 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 balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, and daring spark, The glanee by day, the whisper in the dark. When kind occasion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pagina’s
...guards the purity of melting maids, In courdy 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? 'Tis but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though... | |
 | Lynn Marie Wright, Donald J. Newman - 2006 - 264 pagina’s
...than on ocular or textual evidence. Women are too easily swayed by what Alexander Pope describes as "the treach'rous friend, the daring spark, / The glance by day, the whisper in the dark."'2 Though cultivating a privileged conversational role for herself (her readers can trust what... | |
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