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" Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead : Succeeding vanities she still regards, And though she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of ombre, after death... "
The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid - Page 48
by Virgil - 1778
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1722 - 294 pages
...are dead : Succeeding vanities (he ftill regards, And tho' (he plays no more,- o'erlooks the cadsi Her joy in gilded chariots when alive, And love of Ombre, after death furvive. For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their firft elements the fouls retire : The fprites...
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The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Volume 3

Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - Latin poetry - 1763 - 372 pages
...the/obvious allufion in thefe lines to the fhilofophy of Plato, concerning the duration of the paflions, which our great countryman has fo humouroufly parodied,...when alive, And love of ombre, after death furvive) Da it 52 ^DISSERTATION on the it feems to have a more fecret one, to what he had all the way in his...
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Works: In English Verse, Volume 3

Virgil - 1763 - 376 pages
...obvious allufion in thefe lines to the philoibphy of Plato, concerning the duration of the .paftiohs, which our great countryman has fo humouroufly parodied,...when alive, And love of ombre, after death furvive) D 2 it •t feems to have a more fecret one, to what he had all the way in his eye, the Eleufmian myfteries...
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The Jewish Spy: Being a Philosophical, Historical, and Critical ..., Volume 4

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens (marquis d') - Antisemitism - 1766 - 390 pages
...are dead : Succeeding Vanities (he {rill regards, And tho' (he plays no more, o'erlooks the Cards, Her joy in gilded Chariots, when alive, And love of Ombre, after Death furvive. For when the Fair in all their Pride expire, To their firft Elements the Souls retire : The Sprites...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...once are dead; Succeeding vanities me ftill regards, And, tho' fhe plays no more, o'erlonks the cards. Her joy in gilded Chariots, when alive, And love of Ombre, after death furvive. • For when the Fair in all their pride expire, To their firft Elements their Souls retire : The fpritei...
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Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...dead ; ' Succeeding vanities Hie ftill regards, ' And tho' |fhe plays no more o'erlooks the cards. ' Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, ' And love of ombre, after death furvive ; ' For when the fair in all their pride expire, ' To their firft elements their fouls retire ; •...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...are dead ; Succeeding vanities me ftill regards, And though me plays no more, o'erlooks the cardl. Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of Ombre, after death furvive. For when the fair in all their pride expire,. To their firft elements their fouls retire. The fp'rits...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...are dead ; Succeeding vanities (he ftill regards, And, tho' flic plays no more, o'erlooks the cards. call our neighbour Fool : That harrolefs ; Fw when the fair in all their pride expire, To their firil elements their fouls retire : The fprnes...
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Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this ...

1792 - 112 pages
...are dead; Succeeding vanities she ftill regards, And tho' she plays no more , o'erlooks the cards. Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of Ombre, after death furvive; For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their firft elements their fouls retire: The fprites...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison ...

1794 - 918 pages
...onceare dead. Succeeding vanities flic dill regards, And though the plays no more, o'erlookt tbc nrdsv. Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of ombre, after death fuivive, For when the fair in all their piide npirr, To their firft elenunts their fouls mire : The...
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