Ah cease, rash youth! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments... Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot - Página 22por Alexander Pope - 1885 - 51 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| H. J. Moore - 1859 - 368 páginas
...able to bear the recital, which your pale face admonishes me is not to-day. ' CHAPTER V. * But when fo mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! " POPE. ASIONQ the hills of Yorkshire, remarkable for their picturesque scenery, there stood a noble... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...of Scylla's fate ! Changed to a bird, and sent to Hit in air, Slie^ticarly paid tor Nisus' injured hair! ^^But when to mischief mortals bend their will...ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case ; So ladies, in romance, assist their knight, Present the... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 páginas
...the fancy that disports with a subject easily, and without spasms, because it is a master. Eead. " But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case ; So ladies, in romance, assist their knight — Present the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 páginas
...cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate ! Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair! So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear and arm him for the azttHe... | |
| English language - 1861 - 312 páginas
...gain. Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate ! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 páginas
...Scylla's fate ! Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly paid for Nisus' injured hair. I But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case ; So ladies, in romance, assist their knighl, Present the... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 622 páginas
...betray ; For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. * * * But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...ill ! Just then Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case : So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 páginas
...flit in air, She dearly paid for Nisus' injured hair ! . But when to mischief mortals bend their wil), How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case ; So ladies, in romance, assist their knight, Present the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 páginas
...gain. Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate ! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly...ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edg'd/ weapon from her shining case : So ladies, in romance, assist their knight,. Present the... | |
| Book - 1864 - 206 páginas
...wherever it is rooted, nothing good can grow. It is planted by demons, and reared and nurtured by them. " But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! " There was an interesting custom, called the " Holy Truce," observed iu the Feudal ages, which might... | |
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