 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 pages
...7. " A tower of victory ! from whence the flight Of baffled foes was watched along the plain." 8. " Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair !" FMH 331. " The rocky isle that holds or held his dust Shall crown the Atlantic like the hero's bust."... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. Aaron Hill. When to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Pope, Riipe. HTITFRg He that toils and labours hard To gain, and what he gets has spar'd, Is from... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 pages
...vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems the radiant lock to gain. Ah ! cease, rash youth ; desist sre 'tis too late ; Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's...Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly paid for Nisus' injured hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their wil], How soon they find fit... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapors to the baron's brain New stratagems the radiant lock to gain. Ah ! cease, rash youth ; desist ere 'tis too late...Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly paid for Nisus' injured hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 pages
...his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems the radiant lock to gain. Ah ! cease, rash youth ; desist ere 'tis too late...Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly paid for Nisus' injured hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their wili, How soon they find fit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pages
...his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New stratagems, the radiant Lock to gain. Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear...and think of Scylla's fate! Changed to a bird, and sen!, to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair! But when to mischief mortals bend their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...half-shut eyes)2 Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New Stratagems, the radiant Lock to gain. 120 Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just Gods, and think of Scylla's Fate'M Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair! But when... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 pages
...wants a pretext against the lamb." " He that would hang his dog, gives out first, that he is mad." " But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill." POPE. Mali corvi malum ovum. " Bad the crow, bad the egg." " If better were within, better would come... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...half-shut eyes) ' Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain. no Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear...flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair ! 4 1 From hence the first edition con- * Vide Ovid's Metamorphoses, viii. tinues to ver. 134.— Pom... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1871 - 564 pages
...just gods, and think of Scylla's fate ! Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly paid for Nisus' injured hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, Ho\v soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged... | |
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And see through all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New stratagems, the radiant Lock to gain. 
