 Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels ; not in the bought smile Of harlots — loveless, joyless, unendeared, Casual fruition ; nor in court amours, Mixed dance, or wanton...  The Connecticut Wits: And Other Essays - Seite 234von Henry Augustin Beers - 1920 - 256 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 Seiten
...mistresses in fair nights.] Musick or songs with which ladies are entertained by their lovers in the night. Mixt dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate, which the starv'd lover sings To his proud fair ; best quitted with disdain. Milta. Foolish swallow, what dost... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1809 - 350 Seiten
...Casual fruition ; nor in court amours, Mix'd dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenade, which the starved lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.' In these verses, all the images that can come Into a young woman's head on such an occasion are raised... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 Seiten
...bought smile Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendear'd, Casual fruition; nor in court amours, Mix'd dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate,...sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain. These, Inll'd by nightingales, embracing slept, And on their naked limbs the flowery roof Shower'd... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 Seiten
...bought smile Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendear'd, Casual fruition : nor in court-amours, Mix'd dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate,...sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain. These, lull'd by nightingales, embracing slept; And on their naked limbs the flowery roof Shower'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...unendear'd, Casual fruition; nor in court amours, Mix'd dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenade, / These lull'd by nightingales embracing slept, And on their naked limbs the flow'ry roof Shower'd roses... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...Casual fruition ; nor in eourt amours, Mix'd danee, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Dr serenade, whieh These lull'd by nightingales embraeing slept, And on their naked limbs the flow'ry roof Shower'd roses... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 Seiten
...bought smile 765 Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendear'd, Casual fruition ; nor in court amours, Mix'd dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate, which the starved Isver sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain, 770. These, lull'd.by nightingales, embracing... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 Seiten
...entertained by their lovers in the night. Mixt dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball. Or serénate, which the starved lover sings To his proud fair ; best quitted with disdain. Milton. Foolish swallow, what dost thou So often at my window do, Wilhthy tuneless serenade? Cinrley.... | |
 | 1864 - 998 Seiten
...in his way to sigh forth an amatory sonnet than to deliver himself of a madrigal, — Or serénate which the starved lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain. And it was he perhaps chiefly, who brought about the conversion of the sonnet to other than amatory... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 Seiten
...bought smile Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendear'd, Casual fruition ; nor in court-amours, Mix'd dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate,...sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain. These, lull'd by nightingales, embracing slept, And on their naked limbs the flowery roof Shower'd... | |
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