Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles... The Southern literary messenger - Page 5751855Full view - About this book
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...popery, the adoration of which is plainly re*commended in the following lines: On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Next he represents her as the universal church, according to the boasts of the Papists: And like the... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pages
...popery, the adoration of which is plainly recommended in the following lines : On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Next he represents her as the universal church, according to the boasts of the Papists : And like the... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 208 pages
...well-dress'd youths— around her shone, But ev'ry eye — was fix'd on her alone. On her white breast— a sparkling cross she wore Which Jews might kiss —...sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes— and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none* — to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects — but never once... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 186 pages
...ev'ry eye— was fijs'd on her alone. On her while- breast — a sparkling cross she wore Which Je«s might kiss — and infidels adore. Her lively looks...sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes— and as uniu'd as those . Favours to none — to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects — hut never once... | |
| Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 498 pages
...what it will — Madam — your most obedient — what have you got there, pray? Char. [Heading] '' Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose ; Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those—" Darn. Pray, madam, what is't? Char. " Favours to none, to all she smiles extends... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...shall confine my instances to a single poem, beginning with the First order. , • On her white breast, a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss,...sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once ofiends.... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...I shall confine my Distances to a single poem, beginning with the First order. On her white breast, a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss,...sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those: Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 pages
...the verse to the subject. On her white breast | a sparkling ñòîþ she wore,Which Jews might kin | and infidels adore ; 'Her lively looks | a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes | and as unfix'd as those. Favour« to none | to all she smiles extends, i Oft she rejects but never once offends.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...nymphs, and well-drest youths around her shone, But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, . • Which Jews might...sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix' d as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - 266 pages
...thereby formed. Of this, the following lines from Pope, are a happy illustration : On her white breast | a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss...sprightly mind disclose, Quick, as her eyes, | and as unfix" J as those. Favours to none, | to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects | but never once... | |
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