 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...yielding minds to Water glide away, • And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of Air. NOTES. Ver. 47. As now your own, $c.] The Poet here... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...O'er some new-open'd grave, and (strange to tell,) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. BLAIR'S Grave. 6. For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 7. Matrons who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. CHURCHILL. 8. A horrid... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced : For spirits, freed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1906 - 682 pages
...assume, or both. And Pope in ' The Rape of the Lock ' make» lis Ariel say something similar : — For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. In Gazette's 'Diable Amoureux' Beelzebub is in the form of a woman ; and when Sivav and Vishnu visited... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...deep. — Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them? Shakspere. For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. Pope. Take thou the poet's counsel to thy heart: Question thy spirit, make its wisdom thine — Shut... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome In search of mischief still...And sport and flutter in the fields of air. " Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits, freed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...And sport and flutter in the fields of air. ' Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For spirits, freed... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. r ' Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste I Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For spirits,... | |
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Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields... 
