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... Select epigrams - Página 5por Select epigrams - 1797Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 páginas
...its kind as any one in the English tongue. 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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 872 páginas
...borrowed from Miss Osborn, afterwards his wife : 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 ; Vet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1861 - 368 páginas
..."Epigram on a lady's fan " is well known : — " 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 ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs in... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 páginas
...in its kind as any one in the English tongue. 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... | |
| J. H. - 1867 - 860 páginas
...he can mow. Lord Houghton. 1i8 110. ON A FAN FLAVlA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This fan in. meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love : Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Diverts... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1870 - 524 páginas
...its kind as any one in the English tongue. 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, a Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs... | |
| Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 páginas
...AFTERWARDS HIS WIFE. (" Biographia Britannica.") 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 ; Yet she, with graceful air and mieu, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its... | |
| Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 páginas
...but himself. Written on the leaves of a Fun. Fr.AVlA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ : This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs... | |
| Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 páginas
...AFTERWARDS HIS WIFE. (" Biographia Britannioa.") 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 ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its... | |
| English epigrams - 1878 - 464 páginas
...WRITTEN ON A WHITE FAN BORROWED FROM A LADY. 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 ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs... | |
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