 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 ページ
...china fall. And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heav'n, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best...forms a softer man; Picks from each sex, to make the fav'rite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest ; Blends, in exception to all gen'ral rules,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 570 ページ
...though China fall.4 And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still.5 Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last...general rules, Your taste of follies, with our scorn of fouls : Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride ;... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 ページ
...epistles, nddreased to Henry St. John, Lord Bullugbroke. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it cau consumed in loss and taint f Oh, pusillanimous Heart, be comforted, — And, favorite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest: Blends, iti exception to all general rules,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 ページ
...as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. I li' iv'n, when it strives to polish all it can 17C Its last, best work, but forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the fav'rite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest, Blends, in exception to all gen'ral rules,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 608 ページ
...well as ill. Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heav'n, when it strives to polish all it can 171 Its last, best work, but forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the fav'rito blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest, Blends, in exception to all gen'ral rules,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 ページ
...ll'dwhenawomanappears.(?cry,.B.Opera,nl And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best works, forms but a softer man. Pope, ME n. 269. Men, some to business, some to pleasure take, But every... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 ページ
...contradiction still. 1 The "Essny on Man" le in four epistles, nddressed to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbruke. vulture waits To tear his heart before the c favorite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest: Blends, in exception to all general rules,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 ページ
...again to dust. . . . And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man. and, like the preceding essay, contains some fine passages and much witty satire. Blest paper-credit!... | |
 | 1882 - 612 ページ
...alterations there.' ' At present I don't like to think of them at all.' CHAPTER V. MRS. LANDOB. ' — Blends, in exception to all general rules, Your taste of follies with our scorn of fools ; Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride ; Fix'il... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - 1883 - 332 ページ
...though china falL And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven when it strives to polish all it can Its last...forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the favorite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest : Blends, in exception to all general rules,... | |
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Blends, in exception to all general rules, Your taste of follies with our scorn of fools ; Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles, with fancy ever new : Shakes all together, and produces... 
