 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...nymphs, their elemental tea; ' The graver prude finks downward to a Gnome, In fearch of mifchief flill on earth to roam. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair,': • '-' And fport and flutter in the fields of air. Know farther yet; whoever fair and chafte Rejedts.mankind,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 396 pages
...Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude finks downward to a Gnome, In fearch of milchief ftill on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And fport and flutter in the fields of Air» Know farther yet ; whoever tair and Rejecls mankind, is by... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens (marquis d') - Antisemitism - 1766 - 384 pages
...Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude fijiks downward to a Gnome-, f In fearcli of Mifchief ftill on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And fport and flutter in the Fields of Air. It muft be acknowledged, dear I/aac, that it is limply impoflible... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 290 pages
...nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver Prude finks downward to a Gnome, In fearch of mifchief ftill on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And fport and flutter in the fields of air. Know farther yet ; whoever, fair and chafle, Rejefts mankind,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 598 pages
...their elemental " Tea. " The graver Prude finks downward to a " Gnome, " In fearch of mifchief ftill on Earth to roam. " The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, " And fport and flutter in the fields of Air." Befides the delicate ftrokes of Satire and play of imagination... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...elemental " Tea. "The " The graver Prude finks downward to a " Gnome, " In fearch of mifchief ftill on Earth to roam. " The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, " And fport and flutter in the fields of Air." Befides the delicate ftrokes of Satire and play of imagination... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...souls retire : The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a salamander's name; fo Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip,...tea; The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In aearch of mischief still on earth to roam ; The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, (% And sport... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 518 pages
...nymphs, their elemental tea; ' The graver prude finks downward to a Gnome, ' In fearch of mifchief ftill on earth to roam ; ' The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, ' And fport and flutter in the fields of air. • Know farther yet ; whoever, fair and chafte, ' Rejefts... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 324 pages
...Nymphs, their elemental tea : The graver Prude finks downward to a Gnome-, In fearch of mifchief ftill on earth to roam : The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And iport and flutter in the fields of air. THE RATE OF THE LOCK, VI p. I JO. THE THE TOILET. AND now,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Epic poetry, English - 1798 - 146 pages
...their souls retire : The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a salamander's name. Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip,...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. ' Know further yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits,... | |
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