 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 páginas
...without rlattery to the author, is, I think, as beautiful in its kind as any one in the English tongue : Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless...Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small foree in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 páginas
...contains a pretty thought, expressed with ease and conciseness, and is closed in a beautiful manner. Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless...Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, nor safely seen, Directs its wanton motion so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow, Gives coolness... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 432 páginas
...simplicity * she had no notion of flirting a fan. The rule here is to do every thing without effort— " Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ." This art is lost among us ; the French still have it in very considerable perfection. Really, it is a fine... | |
 | Anacreon, John Broderick Roche - 1827 - 330 páginas
...celebrated writer of our own country has expressed this truth in the following elegant lines : — f'lavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless...be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions BO, That it wounds more, than Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast... | |
 | 1829 - 804 páginas
...the English tongue ! * Flavia the least and h: Mi • i toy Can with rcsistlras art employ. YMtfan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; Bat she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely KCD, Directs its wanton motions co,... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 páginas
...addressed to the lady who afterwards became his wife- '• .'. -in-j' .' -./..ч . : /. >.;.. i. >j,t Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless...meaner hands, would prove An engine of small force m lave ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely teen, Directs its wanton tnotiom... | |
 | Joe Miller - 1836 - 266 páginas
...join'd the former two. Written in the leaves of a Fan. BY DR. ATTERBURY, A LATE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER. Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless...love ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to he told or fairly seen, Directs its flowing motion so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow ; Gives... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 páginas
...flattery to the author, is (I think) as beautiful in its kind as any one in the English tongue. Fiaría the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prore An engine of small force in love ; But she with euch an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely... | |
 | Richard Swainson Fisher - 1838 - 364 páginas
...arrows. A writer of our own country has expressed this truth, in the Mowing elegant lines :— Flavin, the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art...small force in love : Yet she, with graceful air and mein, Nor to be told or safely seen— Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 páginas
...which he is said to have addressed to the lady whom he afterwards married : — " ON A LADY'S FAN. " Flavia, the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless...art employ. This fan, in meaner hands, would prove The engine of small force in love ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely... | |
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Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds... 
