With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial... The Fables of Æsop - Página 1331866 - 264 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Andrew Wynter - 1855 - 156 páginas
...ringlets. But too well woman knows the power Venus has endowed her with in this silken lasso : — " Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair." In the rougher sex the temper and disposition are more apparent from the set of the hair than in woman,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. Heft & O* Lett, HI THE BARON OFFERS SACRIFICE FOR SUCCESS. The adventurous Baron the bright locks admired;... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 páginas
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. The adventurous Baron1 the bright locks admired ; He saw, he wished, and to the prize aspired. so Resolved... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 páginas
...slender chains.! With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hail*. The adventurous Barpn^the bright locks admired ; He saw, he wished, and to the prize aspired.... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 522 páginas
...Letters,1 which has a great affinity wiih a thought of Pop«, who, in f the Rape of the Lock/ says, * Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a »ingle hair.' Howoll writes, p. 290, ' Tis a powerful sex : they wer* too strong for the first, the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 páginas
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. *gx*U* feet, ILL THE BARON OFFERS SACRIFICE FOR SUCCESS. The adventurous Baron the bright locks admired;... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 páginas
...Letters," which has a great affinity with a thought of Pope, who, in " the Rape of the Lock," says, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. Howell writes, p. 290, " 'Tis a powerful sex : — they were too strong for the first, the strongest... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. The Temple of Fame, and the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady, were next published; and in 1713, appeared... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 páginas
...votaries. "Love in these labyrinths his slares detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains ; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair." * If woman is invested with such various and potent attractions — such gentle grace and bewitching... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 páginas
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single liair. THE BARON OFFERS SACRIFICE FOR SUCCESS. The adventurous Baron the bright locks admired ; He... | |
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