 Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery...  The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose - Page 188by John Dryden - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she 's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the runagate... | |
 | Ovid - Latin poetry - 1857 - 262 pages
...pleased to bless. Still various and unconstaut still, But with an inclination to be ill, Provokes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she 's kind, But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 592 pages
...destroy Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes...kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly... | |
 | Horace - Latin poetry - 1858 - 536 pages
...destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes...kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes...kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : „ The little or the much she gave is quietly... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...beginning Laudo manentem, he went on, 'or to adopt the more beautiful paraphrase of l)ryden : — ' I can enjoy her while she's kind, But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.' To give another instance in which Canning... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless: Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes...kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave is quietly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 636 pages
...destroy Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes...kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not slay I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...various, and inconstant Mill, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in slriff, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while...kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave is quietly... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pages
...destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes...kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away ; The little or the much she gave is quietly... | |
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