 | George Oliver - 1875 - 272 ページ
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.2 The figure of a cross, to symbolise the four elements, formed a disquisition in one of the Theo1... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 ページ
...with pride; On the rich silk sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown for sickness and for show. POPE. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. POPE. 'Tis these that early taint the female soul, Instruct the eyes of young coquettes to roll, Teach... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 ページ
...glide away. And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnotne. te, and not disrelish thirst Of nectarous draughts...Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape Comes pints, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please What guards... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 454 ページ
...Soft yielding nymphs to water glide away And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea; The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." And the contrivance by which Belinda is awakened is also perfectly in keeping with all the rest of... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 ページ
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air." The dream-youth tells how the sylphs watch over women, and help them with one vanity to drive another... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 ページ
...Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...of Air. Know farther yet; whoever fair and chaste Kejects mankind, is by some Sylph embrac'd: For Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 ページ
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea ; The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome In search of mischief still...And sport and flutter in the fields of air. "Know further yet; whoever fair anc chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced : For spirits, freed... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 ページ
...Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...(•$ And sport and flutter in the fields of Air. i Know farther yet : whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embrac'd; For Spirits,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 ページ
...pride ; On the rich silk sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown for sickness and for show. POPE. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. POPE. Tis these that early taint the female soul, Instruct the eyes of young coquettes to roll, Teach... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 454 ページ
...Soft yielding nymphs to water glide away And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea; The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam; The light coquettes in sylphs nloft repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." And the contrivance by which Belinda is awakened... | |
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Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields... 
