 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...various turns Of fortune ponder; that your sons may want What now, with hard reluctance, faint, ye give. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends; And Fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth. For, in her helpless years depriv'd of all, Of every stay, save Innocence and Heaven, She, with her... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...various turns Of fortune ponder; that your sons may want What now, with hard reluctance, faint, ye give. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends; And Fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth. For, in her helpless years depriv'd of all, Of every stay, save Innocence and Heaven, She, with her... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pages
...various turns Of fortune ponder ; that your sons may want What now, with hard reluctance, faint ye give. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends; And Fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth. For, in her helpless years deprived of all, Among the windings of a woody vale ; By solitude and deep... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...various turns Of fortune ponder; that your sons may want What now, with hard reluctance, faint, ye give. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends ; And Fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth. For, in her helpless years deprived of all, Of every stay, save Innocence and Heaven, She, with her... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...various turns Of fortune ponder ; that vour sons may want What now, with hard reluctance, faint, ye give. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends ; And fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth. For, in her helpless years deprived of all. Of every stay, save innocence and Heaven, She, with her... | |
 | 1824 - 596 pages
...bloom extracting liquid sweets. And Thompson pours forth his numbers, in melody scarcely inferior. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends, And fortune smiled deceitful on Ler birth ; For in her tender years deprived of all, Of every stay, save innocence and heaven. She... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 pages
...reference to the preceding lines, and indeed only to one word, as the cause of her living in retirement : ' The lovely young Lavinia once had friends ; And fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth: For, — in her helpless years,' &c. It would be no unprofitable exercise for students to mark the... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...an erring and sinning child of dust Should not wonder nor murmur—but hope and trust! V. LAVINIi. THE lovely young Lavinia once had friends, And fortune smiled deceitful on her birth : For in her helpless years deprived of all, Of every stay, save innocence and heaven, She with her... | |
 | James Thomson - 1838 - 236 pages
...various turns Of fortune ponder; that your sons may want What now, with hard reluctance, faint, ye give. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends; And Fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth. For, in her helpless years deprived of all, Of every stay, save Innocence and Heaven, She with her... | |
 | 1843 - 396 pages
...healthy, and it was gratifying to see them return from the fields at night, bearing their gleanings in twisted bands arranged in large bundles on their .heads...beautifully told in Thompson's Autumn. " The lovely young Laviaia once had friends, And fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth." NEW YORK FARMERS' CLUD. THE... | |
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The lovely young Lavinia once had friends; And Fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth. For, in her helpless years... 
