 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...then err'd not, but forgot. ' With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, ' Say what does Chloe want V 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... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...in her then err'd not, but forgot. ' With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, ' Say what does 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... | |
 | Fortune-telling - 1851 - 84 pages
...Byron. 16. Her voice is ever soft, gentle, and low, • An excellent thing in woman. Shakespeare. 17. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought, But never, never reach'da generous thought. Pope. 18. Mind is her best gift, and poetry her world, And she will see... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 450 pages
...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...dwell in decencies for ever. So very reasonable, so uumov'd, As never yet to love, or to be lov'd. She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 430 pages
...her then err'd not, but forgot. . ' With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, ' Say what does 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... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...in her then err'd not, but forgot. * With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, ' Say what does 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Nature in her then err'd not, but forgot. With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe also shall, on feastful days, Visit his tomb with flowers ; only bewailing His lot unfortunate i rcach'd one generous thought. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavor, Content to dwell in decencies... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...She's still the same belov'd, contented thing. /. POPE — Epilogue to Satires. Dialogue I. L. 137. u hast proud fanes above Thy mighty dead. Yet wears thy Tiber's forever. g. POPE— Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 163. Sweet drop of pure and pearly light ; In thee the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...POPE. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green ; She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen. POPE. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought, But never, never reach'd one generous thought ; Yirtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies... | |
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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... 
