 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 Quarterly Review - Էջ 3281853Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 էջ
...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 baron the bright locks admired Be saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. ResoivVl... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1861 - 556 էջ
...claims as a divinity of Olympus. What gives tlie loose and wanton air to the portraits in Charles II. 'a bedchamber at Hampton Court ? Duchess and Countess...from the set of the hair than in woman, because, as already observed, they allow it to follow more the arrangement of nature. Curly hair bespeaks the sanguine... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1861 - 562 էջ
...ringlets. But too well woman knows the power Venus has endowed her with in this silken lasso : — " Pair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws...from the set of the hair than in woman, because, as already observed, they allow it to follow more the arrangement of nature. Curly hair bespeaks the sanguine... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 էջ
...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 Baron the bright locks admire ; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. Resolved... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 էջ
...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 party was wafted down to Hampton Court. Evening coming on : — ' Belinda, now, whom thirst of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 էջ
...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 BARON OFFERS SACRIFICE FOR SUCCESS. The adventurous Baron the bright locks admired; He saw, he... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 էջ
...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. 177. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO ms SOUL. Vital spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame'!... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1865 - 552 էջ
...edifyingly said. The Greeks, with their usual subtilty in reading Nature, and interpreting her in the works of art, have distinguished their gods by the...from the set of the hair than in woman, because, as already observed, they allow it to follow more the arrangement of nature. Curly hair bespeaks the sanguine... | |
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