 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...Scylla's fate ! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair !» But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...for the fight. He takes the gift with reverence, and extend* The little engine on his fingers' ends : This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er... | |
 | H. J. Moore - 1859 - 368 Seiten
...able to bear the recital, which your pale face admonishes me is not to-day. ' CHAPTER V. * But when fo mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! " POPE. ASIONQ the hills of Yorkshire, remarkable for their picturesque scenery, there stood a noble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 Seiten
...Scylla's fate ! Changed to a bird, and sent to Hit in air, Slie^ticarly paid tor Nisus' injured hair! ^^But when to mischief mortals bend their will How...! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case ; So ladies, in romance, assist their knight, Present the spear,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 Seiten
...the fancy that disports with a subject easily, and without spasms, because it is a master. Eead. " But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case ; So ladies, in romance, assist their knight — Present the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 Seiten
...Scylla's fate ! Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair! So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear and arm him for the azttHe takes the gift with reverence, and tiunto The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 Seiten
...Scylla's fate ! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...tempting grace A two-edg'd weapon from her shining ease : So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear and arm him for the fight. He takes... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...betray ; For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. * * * But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...! Just then Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case : So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 Seiten
...Scylla's fate ! Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly paid for Nisus' injured hair. I But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case ; So ladies, in romance, assist their knighl, Present the spear,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 Seiten
...flit in air, She dearly paid for Nisus' injured hair ! . But when to mischief mortals bend their wil), How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from her shining case ; So ladies, in romance, assist their knight, Present the spear,... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 206 Seiten
...wherever it is rooted, nothing good can grow. It is planted by demons, and reared and nurtured by them. " But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! " There was an interesting custom, called the " Holy Truce," observed iu the Feudal ages, which might... | |
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Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit... 
