 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...was love. His condupt might hare made him styl'd A father, and the nymph his child. I .:'-i' innoceut delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was...but the master's secret joy In school to hear the 6nest boy. Her knowledge with her fancy grew ; She hourly press'd for something new ; Ideas came into... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...fashionable aits; . ; •,, .,, he now could praise,, esteem, approve, but understood not what was Jove. His conduct might have made him styl'd a father, and...master's secret joy in school to hear the ;finest boy. Her knowledge with her fancy grew ;. she hourly press'd for something, new ; Ideas came into her mind... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 pages
...airs : i . He now could praise, esteem, approve, ' •• But understood not what was love. :..-..•i His conduct might have made him styl'd- "''• "'...delight he took / .,- . To see the virgin mind her book, i-••:.• Was but the master's secret joy • ' -.1 . In school to hear the finest boy. • J .•... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pages
...characterized his affection for Vanessa as void of passion: " His conduct might have made him slyl'd, A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight...virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy la school to hear the finest boy." And Stella he has thus addressed : " Thou, Stella, wert no longer... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 686 pages
...characterized his affection for Vanessa as void of passion : • " His conduct might have made him st) I'd, A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight...virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret j 07 In school to hear the finest buy." And Stella he has thus addressed : * Vol. IX. p. 421. <{ Thou,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. His conduct might have made him sty I'd mortal amarant, a flower which sec the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the Hnest boy. , Her... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...spoil'd his fashionable airs : He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. His conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. Her knowledge with her fancy grew ; She hourly press'd for something new ; Ideas came into her mind... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...could praise, esteem, approve, Bat understood not what was love. His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. Her knowledge with her fancy grew ; She hourly press'd for something new ; Ideas came into her mind... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 352 pages
...spoil'd his fashionable airs: He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. His conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. Her knowledge with her fancy grew; She hourly press'd for something new; Ideas came into her mind So... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...spoil'd his fashionable airs: He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing...had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd Her knowledge with her fancy grew; She hourly press'd for something new ; Ideas came into her mind... | |
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A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. 
