 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 ページ
...was incapable of a mean jealousy ; and if he gave this advice, thought it really proper to be given. When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war.* The f.. * Ver. 538. dissolute reign of Charles II. justly deserved the satirical proscription in this... | |
 | 1806 - 542 ページ
...exhibited a (krtch of r! e age we are fpeakirg of with the hand of a milter:— " When love was all an eafy Monarch's care ; Seldom at Council, never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the ftate, and ftatelraen farces writ ; Nay, wits had penfion», and young Lords had wit : The fair fat... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 ページ
...Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase: When love was all an easy monarch's care, 336 Seldom at council, never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the...had wit; The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, 840 And not a mask wqnt unimprov'd away ; The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 ページ
...Tn the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and case, Sprang the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase: When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at...Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ; "Nay w'ts had pensions, and young lords had wit: The fair sat panting at a courtier's play. And not a mask... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 ページ
...'>•-.< age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprank the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : ice to raise: What will not men attempt for sacred...by art, Reigns, more or less, arid glows in ev'ry courtiers piny, AnJ not .1 mask went unimprov'd away ; The modest fan was li fled up no more ; And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 ページ
...the fat age of pleasure, wealth and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thri\'<i with large increase ; When love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at...wits had pensions, and young lords had wit : The fair sate panting at a courtier's play, And not a mask went unimprov'd away : The modest fan was lifted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 ページ
...fat age of pleasure, wealth and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase ; WTien love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council,...wits had pensions, and young lords had wit : The fair sate panting at a courtier's play, And not a mask went unimprov'd away : The modest fan was lifted... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 ページ
...sprang the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase: when love was all an easy monarch's care ; 536 seldom at council, never in a war: jilts rul'd the...had wit; the fair sat panting at a courtier's play, 540 and not a mask went unimprov'd away ; the modest fan was lifted up no more, and virgins smil'd... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 ページ
...sprang the rank weed, and thriv'd with large iiicreas when love was all an easy monarch's care ; S seldom at council, never in a war: jilts rul'd the...had wit; the fair sat panting at a courtier's play, i and not a mask went unimprov'd away ; the modest fan was lifted up no more, and virgins smil'd at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 ページ
...Sprang the rank weed, and thriv'd with large inWhen love was all an easy monarch's care ; [crease t Seldom at council, never in a war: Jilts rul'd the...statesmen farces writ ; Nay wits had pensions, and young limls had wit* The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, Aud not a mask wrut nnimprov'd away : VARIATIONS.... | |
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Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love. In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprang the rank weed, and thrived with large increase: When love was all an easy... 
