 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...  Joe Miller's Jests: With Copious Additions - Página 220por Joe Miller - 1836 - 248 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 páginas
...strike the balance. WRITTEN IN THE LEAVES OF A FAN, BY DR. AT'i'ERBURY, 1.4*1 L BISHOP OF R CHESTER. FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless...art employ ; This fan, in meaner hands, would prove Ail engine of wnall force ID love ; Tet she, with graceful air and mien. Not to be told, or safely... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 páginas
...*»— FRANCIS ATTERBURT. ON A FAN. FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless trt employ I This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love : Tet she with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 796 páginas
...of his writings, seems to have lad an eye to this ode when he composed the "ollowing lines on a fan: Flavia the least and slightest toy , Can with resistless...love; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow; Gives... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 páginas
...without flattery 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...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 páginas
...without flattery to the author,0 is (I think) as beautiful in its kind as any one in the English tongue. Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless...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,... | |
 | 1812 - 156 páginas
...worse : My wife was ugly and a scold ; My Chloe was grown lean and old — Ill 112 CCCXXIV. The Fan. Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless...prove An engine of small force in love ; Yet she with gentle art and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...shall my propless ivy, pale and bent, Bless the short sunshine which thy pity lent. The Fan. ATTERBBRY. FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless...hands, would prove ' An engine of small force in love : l^ct she, with graceful air and mien, Apt to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 páginas
...without flattery 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...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,... | |
 | 1823 - 872 páginas
...a pretty thought, expressed with ease and conciseness, and closed in a beaut. ful manner. On a FAN. Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless...love. Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told or safelv seen, Directe its wanton motion so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow, Gives coolness... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 288 páginas
...without flattery 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...hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; Bat she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so,... | |
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