 | Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...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 seen, Directs its wanton moDon so, That it wounds more titan Cupid's bow ; Gives Coolness to the matchless dame, To every other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 796 pages
...least and slightest toy , Can with resistless art employ : This fan, in meaner hands, would prove An engine of small force in love; Yet she, with graceful...Cupid's bow; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To ev'ry other breast a flame. 8. Till me, alas! a serpent stun;:] His being tung by a serpent, as Madame... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 530 pages
...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...Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To ev'ry other breast a flame. When this coxcomb had done reading them, ' Heyday ! (says he) what instrument... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 pages
...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...Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To ev'ry other breast a flame. When this coxcomb had done reading them, ' Heyday ! (says he) what instrument... | |
 | Epigrams - 1812 - 156 pages
...employ : This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; Yet she with gentle art and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs...matchless dame, — To every other breast a flame. cccxxv. Whilst Zoilus, with canker'd spite, My reputation slays, The way that I his spleen requite,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...meaner 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...Cupid's bow ; Gives^ coolness to the matchless dame, To ev'ry other breast a flame. *• 881 To the Author of an Epitaph on Dr. Mead, HACKETT. MEAD'S not dead... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...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...the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame. ToL. V. N When this coxcomb had done reading them, " Hey-day !" saya he, " what instrument is this... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small foree in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs...the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame. Wheh this Coxcomb had done reading them, ' Heyday !' says he, ' what instrument is this that Flavia... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 pages
...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...the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame. When this coxcomb had done reading them, ' Heyday!' says he, 'what instrument is this that Flavia employs... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 288 pages
...employ. This Fan in meaner 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...the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame. When this coxcomb had done reading them, ' Heyday !' says he, ' what instrument is this that Flavia... | |
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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... 
