 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...not, but forgot. " With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want ?" — She wams ture as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends wit reach'd one generous thought. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavor, Content to dwell in decencies... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...?" — She wants a heart. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought ; But never, never reach'd one generous thought. Virtue she finds too painful...dwell in decencies for ever. So very reasonable, so unmov'd, As never yet to love or to be lov'd. She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...Nature in her then err'd not, but forgot. " With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want ?" — She wants a heart. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought ; But never, never reach'd one generous thought. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour — Content to dwell in decencies... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...Nature in her then err'd not, but forgot. " With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"— She wants a heart. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought ; But never, never reach'd one generous thought. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavor — Content to dwell in decencies... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...Nature in her then err'd not, but forgot. " With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Cbloe want?" — She wants a heart. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought ; But never, never reach'd one generous thought. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavor — Content to dwell in decencies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...160 .She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought; ISut never, never reach'd one generous though Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies for ever. Sa very reasonable, so unmoved, As never yet to love, or to be loved. .She, while her lover pants upon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...love ; 75 I shun his zenith, court his mild decline ; Thus SOMERS once, and HALIFAX, were mine. NOTES. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies for ever. He means, therefore, to allow Seeker moderate, but not leading, excellences of character ; to exhibit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...forgot. " With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Cloe want?" — She wants a heart. 160 She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought ; But never, never, reach'd one generous thought. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...wisely is not therefore wise — His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies. POPE'S Moral Essays. 12. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought, But never, never reach'd one generous thought ; Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...161 .She speaks, hehaves, and acts just as she ought; Hut nev,-r, never reach' d one generous though Virtue- she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies for ever. So very reasonahle, so unmoved, As invur yet to love, or to he loved. Sin-, v.-inle her lover pants upon her... | |
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She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest ; And when she sees her friend in... 
