 The beauties which adorn'd that age, The shining subjects of his rage, Hoping they should immortal prove, Rewarded with success his love. This was the generous poet's scope, And all an English pen can hope, To make the fair approve his flame, That can...  Bell's Edition - Página 137por John Bell - 1784Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 páginas
...view to winning women's love, he adds : — This was the generous poet's scope ; And all an English pen can hope, To make the fair approve his flame, That can so far extend their fame. Verse, thus designed, has no ill fate, If it arrive but at the date Of fading... | |
 | Alfred Horatio Upham - 1908 - 582 páginas
...his poem on " English Verse," he says : — "This was the generous poet's scope; And all an English pen can hope, To make the fair approve his flame, That can so far extend their fame. Verse, thus designed, has no ill fate If it arrive but at the date Of fading... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 páginas
...recalled : But who can hope his lines should long Last, in a daily changing tongue ? - all an English pen can hope ; To make the Fair approve his flame That can so far extend their fame. See the passage by Atterbury on p. 25. P. 653. Walton.— The milkmaid's... | |
 | Anna Sheldon Camp Sneath - 1912 - 302 páginas
...immortal prove Rewarded with success his love. This was the gen'rous poet's scope; And all an English pen can hope, To make the fair approve his flame, That can so far extend their fame! Verse, thus design'd, has no ill fate, If it arrive but at the date Of fading... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...immortal prove, Rewarded with success his love. This was the gen'rous poet's scope; And all an English pen can hope: To make the fair approve his flame, That can so far extend their fame. Verse, thus design'd, has no ill fate, If it arrive but at the date 30 Of... | |
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