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
| James Comper Gray - 1872 - 372 páginas
...covered at public worship " Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty." — Herodotus. "Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair."— Pope. a Dr. BW Hamilton. " Hair is at once the most delicate and las ting of our materials, and survives... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1873 - 448 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. Pope. BEAUTY AND PURITY. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ;... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 páginas
...barbarous manners in company Chesterfield holds up, in his Letters to /'is son, as things to be avoided. Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. — POPE : Rape of the Lock. This has a strong affinity with a passage in HOWELL'S Letters : — "Tis... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 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 advent'rous baron the bright locks admired; He saw, he wished, and to the prize aspired. Resolved... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 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. POPE. The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever. POPE. These,... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 páginas
...manners in company Chesterfield holds up, in his Letters to his son, as things to be avoided. Pair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. — POPE : Rape of the Loclc. 'This has a strong affinity with a passage in Ho WELL'S Letters : —... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1877 - 474 páginas
...Flora's coming ; I feel a foreboding of her proving a real grievance now." CHAPTER XXVI. A COUNTER-CHARM. Fair tresses, man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. POPE. jHE skating proved a great enjoyment to the young Duncans. Kate and Bessie learned easily to... | |
| Mary Neville - 1876 - 308 páginas
...of hers would have been to his unsuspicious nature, " That is not what I married for." CHAPTER XV. " Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair." POPE. SUNDAY morning rose bright and glorious. The Brighton climate differs from other English towns... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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. Th' adventurous Baron the bright locks admired : He saw, he wished, and to the prize aspired. Resolved... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 páginas
...With hairy springes we the birds bclray ; Slight lines of hair surprise Ihe finny prey ; Fair Iresses ĒK( @ 7 Th' adventurous baron Ihe bright locks admir'd He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Resolv'd... | |
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