 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...Cooks. Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense I Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, • A painted mistress, or a purling stream.' Tet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still : Yet then did... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...Cooks. Soft were my numhers ; who could take offence, While pure description held the place of sense? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 150 Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still ; Yet then did... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...Coi.ks. Soft were my numbers : who could take offence While pure description held the place of s^nse ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 150 Yrt then did Gildon draw hh venal quill j I i li'ii the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...Soft were my numbers : who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Ijke gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 150 Yet th> n did Ciildon draw his venal quill ; I wisli'd the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Cooks. Soft were my numbers : who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? d ; under this tree Stood visible ; among these pines his voice I heard ; here wit Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; 1 vish'd the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then did... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...Cooks. Soft were my numbers : who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then did... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Cooks. Soft were my numbers; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, ' A painted mistress, or a purling stream.' Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still: Yet then did Dennis... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...Cooks. Soft were my numbers; who could take offence, While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 150 NOTES. Lansdown, the open free benevolence and candour of Garth, the warmth of Congreve, the difficulty... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...Cooks. Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, ' A painted mistress, or a purling stream.' Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still : Yet then did... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Cooks. Soft were my numbers: who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? es Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then did... | |
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Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, ' A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 
