 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 592 pages
...reason will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit: To such a nymph, the wise and good, Cannot be faithless, if they would, For vices all have different...complain „ But here Vanessa cannot err, Nor are those rules applied to her : For who could such a nymph forsake, Except a blockhead, or a rake ; Or... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pages
...reason will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit : To such a nymph the wise and good, Cannot be faithless, if they would ; For vices all have different...a cause complain, But here Vanessa cannot err, Nor arc these rules applied to her, For who could such a nymph forsake, Except a blockhead, or a rake ;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 686 pages
...reason will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit : To such a nymph the wise and good, Cannot be faithless, if they would ; For vices all have different...deserves disdain, Or you without a cause complain, VOL. I. R But here Vanessa cannot err, Nor are these rules applied to her, For who could such a nymph... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 594 pages
...reason will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit: To such a nymph, the wise and good, Cannot be faithless, if they would, For vices all have different...is not true, 'Tis virtue fails in him, or you : And cither he deserves disdain, Or you without a cause complain ; Hut here Vanessa cannot err, Nor are... | |
 | 1821 - 90 pages
...must lahour to perfect her charaeprove, And Hymen will rivet the fetters of love. Oarrick. FROM 8W1FT. The strongest reason will suhmit To virtue, honour,...deserves disdain, Or you without a cause complain. Woman as she ought to he. — There are woter: love is clear-sighted, and will easily point - — out... | |
 | Papirius Cursor - 1821 - 40 pages
...virtue, honor, sense and wit. To such a nymph the wise and good Cannot be faithless, if they wou'd ; For vices all have different ends, But virtue still...deserves disdain, Or you without a cause complain. FOR THE OMNIUM GATHERUM. Mr. Editor, Since the days of Garrick, Siddons, Cooke, and (at the present... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 556 pages
...reason will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit : To such a nymph, the wise and good Cannot be faithless, if they would ; For vices all have different...her, For who could such a nymph forsake, Except a blockhead or a rake ? Or how could she her heart bestow, Except where wit and virtue grow ? The letters... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - Authors, Irish - 1826 - 334 pages
...will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit : To such am MI | il>, I In' wise and good Cannot be faithless, if they would ; For vices all have different...to virtue tends : And when your lover is not true^ 'T is virtue fails in him or you. And either he deserves disdain, Or you without a cause complain.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 pages
...reason will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit : To such a nymph, the wise and good Cannot be faithless, if they would ; For vices all have different...her, For who could such a nymph forsake. Except a blockhead or a rake ? Or how could she her heart bestow, Except where wit and virtue grow ? The letters... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pages
...reason will submit • To virtue, honour, sense, and wit: To such a nymph, the wise and good Cannot be faithless, if they would ; For vices all have different...ends, But virtue still to virtue tends : And when 3'our lover is not true, 'Tis virtue fails in him, or you. And either he deserves disdain, Or you without... | |
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Observe them but for fashion's sake ; The strongest reason will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit : To such a nymph, the wise and good Cannot be faithless, if they would ; For vices all have different ends, But virtue still to virtue tends : And... 
