 When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes so bright and with that awful air, I thought my heart which durst so high aspire As bold, as his who snatched celestial fire. But soon as e'er the beauteous idiot spoke, Forth from her coral lips such...  Joe Miller's Jests: With Copious Additions - Page 233by Joe Miller - 1836 - 248 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 828 pages
...about another beauty, who perhaps was not so well pleased at the poet's manner of celebrating her — " When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes...such folly broke : Like balm the trickling nonsense heal'd my wound, And what her eyes enthralled, her tongue unbound." Amoret is a cleverer woman than... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 410 pages
...another beauty, who perhaps was not so well pleased at the poet's manner of celebrating her — 2S " When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes...aspire As bold as his who snatched celestial fire. * " There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing 3Oto have done everything by chance.... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...And I would lie so ligbt, so light, I scarce should be unclasp'd at night. ALFKRU TU.N.NYSO LESBIA. ၀ would durst so high aspire, As bold as his who snatched celestial fire. But soon as e'er the beauteous... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...another beauty, who perhaps was not so •well pleased at the poet's manner of celebrating her — " When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes...e'er the beauteous idiot spoke, Forth from her coral h'ps such folly broke : Like balm the trickling nonsense heal'd my wound, And what her eyes enthralled,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 428 pages
...another beauty, who perhaps was not so well pleased at the poet's manner of celebrating h«r — " When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes...such folly broke : Like balm the trickling nonsense heal'd my wound, And what her eyes enthralled, her tongue unbound." 1 " There seems to be a strange... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1911 - 278 pages
...about another beauty, who perhaps was not so well pleased at the poet's manner of celebrating her:— " When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes so bright and with lhat awful air, I thought my heart which durst so high aspire As bold as his who snatched celestial... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...civility ; — Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. ROBERT 1IBRRICK. SILLY FAIR. WHEN Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes...Like balm the trickling nonsense healed my wound, And what her eyes inthralled her tongue unbound. WILLIAM CONGRBYH. CONSTANCY. ONE evo of beauty, when... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - Epigrams - 1926 - 264 pages
...to act the man — in vain ! We had exchanged our hearts indeed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ON LESBIA. When Lesbia first I saw so heavenly fair, With eyes...Like balm the trickling nonsense healed my wound, And what her eyes enthralled her tongue unbound. William Congreve. LOVE INCONCEALABLE. Who can hide... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...harm, swelling. Cíe, wen. wound. William Congreve confessed himself dazzled at first sight of Lesbia: But soon as e'er the beauteous idiot spoke, Forth...such folly broke, Like balm the trickling nonsense heal'd my wound, And what her eyes enthral'd, her tongue unbound. uab: cry, wail. L, vapúlate (literally,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...about another beauty, who perhaps was not so well pleased at the poet's manner of celebrating her — "When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes...bright and with that awful air, I thought my heart would17 durst so high aspire As bold as his who snatched celestial fire. But soon as e'er the beauteous... | |
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