 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 - Sida 1331866 - 264 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1808 - 408 sidor
...slender chaius, U ith 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' advent'rous Baron Ihe bright locks adinir'd ; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Kesolv'd... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 sidor
...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." In these lines, and in all the poem, a slight circum.stance is magnified into something of apparent... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sidor
...chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; *pair Th' advent'roiis Baron thebrigrit locks ad mi r'd ; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Resolv'd... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 sidor
...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. Rape of tie Lock, Canto ii. ver. 23. Here the emphasis on each particular requires the first and second... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 sidor
...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 , He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. Resolved... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 sidor
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight Unes of hair surprise the fiuny prey; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. The adventurous baron the bright locks admired ; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. Resolved... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 sidor
...slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; s can be had? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : The adventurous baron the bright locks admired y He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. Resolv'd... | |
 | 1826 - 82 sidor
...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. Rape of the Locke, Canto ii. rtr. 23. Here the emphasis on each particular requires the first and second... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 sidor
....Shalupeari. Her swelling breast Naked met his, under the flowing gold Of her loose treat» hid. Milton. Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope. TRESTLE-TREES, in ship-building, two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally on the opposite... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 sidor
...With hairy springes we the birds betray ; flight line« of hair surprise the finny prey ; Fur tressée man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. The adventurous baron the bright locks admired ; He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspired. Resolv'd... | |
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