| Mary Anne Neri - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - 1804 - 270 pages
...that moment had been planning. CHAP. CHAP. III. 0 t reach' rous conscience — See, from l)i'hiiul her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills." YOUNG. " Ere, to black lie-nil's summons, The sluinl-borne beetle, with liis drowsy... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...drop On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, And give us up to licence, unrecall'd, Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills. Not the gross act alone employs her pen ; She reconnoitres fancy's airy band, A watchful... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...to drop On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, And give us up to license, unrecall'd, Unmark'd ; see, from behind her secret stand. The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills. Not the gross act alone employs her pen; She reconnoitres fancy's airy band, A watchful... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...drop On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, And give us up to licence, unrccalPd, Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horrour fills. Not the gross act alone employs her pen; She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band, A watchful... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...appetite the sl,ieken'd rein, And give us up to l,cence. uurecall'd, • Vmnark'd;—see, from hehind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault. And her dread diary with horrour fills. Not the cross aet alone employs her pen. She reconnoitres Fancy's airy hand, Unnoted,... | |
| Edward Young - 1812 - 814 pages
...drop On headlong Appetite the slacken'd rein, And give us up to license, unrecall'd, Unmark'd; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills. Not the gross act alone employs her pen ; She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band. A watchful... | |
| Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...drop On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, And give us up to licence, unrecall'd, Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills. Not the gross act alone employs her pen : She reconnoitres fancy's airy band, A watchful... | |
| English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...drop On headlong Appetite the slacken'd rein, And give us up to License, unrecall'd, Unmark'd;—see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills. Not the gross act alone employs her pen; She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band. A watchful... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...drop On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, And give us up to licence unrecall'd, Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horrour nils. Not the gross act alone employs her pen ; She reconnoitres .Fancy's airy band ; A. watchful... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 546 pages
...to drop On headlong appetite, the slacken'd [ein, And give us up to licence, unrecalPd, Unmark'd — See, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills. Not the gross act alone employs her pen ; She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band, A watchful... | |
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