 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 ページ
...I know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de Gabatts, which both in its title and size is so like a novel, that many of the fair sex have read...the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 ページ
...I know of them is in a French book call'd Le Comte tie Gabalist which both in its title and size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes or Daemons of Earth delight in 1 It appears, by this Motto, that the following Poem was written or published... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 ページ
...I know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de Gabtiits, which both in its title and size is so like a novel, that many of the fair sex have read...by spirits, which they call sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, anil salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation... | |
 | William Langland - 1869 - 278 ページ
...fire, the nymphs in the water; and as Pope says, in his Introduction to the Rape of the Lock—• The gnomes, or demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation is the air, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable.' 132. The texts are, Reddite Ccesari, L 52,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1871 - 438 ページ
...know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de Gabalis, which, both in its title and size, is so like a novel, that many of the fair sex have read...nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of the earth, delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the bestconditioned... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1872 - 340 ページ
...know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de Gabalis, which, both in its title and siJe, is so like a novel, that many of the fair sex have read...nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of the earth, delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best conditioned... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 ページ
...bo'.h in its title and size is so like a novel, that ratiy of the fair sex have read it for one hy mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements...mischief ; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the sir, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1872 - 340 ページ
...by spirits, which they call sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes , or demons of the earth , delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose...air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable." In the first canto of the Rape of the Lock, the passage occurs: — "For when the fair in all their... | |
 | 1872 - 602 ページ
...little should be known of the author of this book, " which," Pope says, " both in its title and size is so like a novel that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake." The author was L'Abbe^ Montfaucon de Villars, nephew of the celebrated Benedictin Bernard de Montfaucon,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 ページ
...extinct, her portrait is still preserved at his earlier seat, Tusmore. See Carruthers, Life of Pope, mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the Air, are the best-condition'd creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities... | |
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Gabalis," which, both in its title and size, is so like a novel that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. 
