Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, but rank poison... Continental Adventures: A Novel ... - Strana 70podľa Charlotte Anne Waldie Eaton - 1826Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Edward Young - 1802 - Počet stránok 420
...our own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy\ We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it...mighty gains; What is it, but rank poison in your veins ? As FLAVIA in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lyes ; Tells her, while... | |
| 1803 - Počet stránok 468
...and coy; We strive to grasp it with out utmost snill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still; It seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains; What is it but rank poison in your veins i As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies; l'ounj.JL u Tells... | |
| Edward Young - 1805 - Počet stránok 232
...own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy ; We starve to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes...mighty gains : What is it but rank poison in your veins ? As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies ; Tells her, while... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - Počet stránok 424
...quick-silver, is bright and coy : We strive to grasp it, with our utmost skill ; Still it duties MS, and it glitters still ; If seiz'd at last, compute...gains : What is it, but rank poison in your veins ? in order to be free from interruption, to an obscure place in the suburbs. His director hearing no... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - Počet stránok 420
...illustrative : Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quick-lihcr, is bright and coy: We strive to grasp it, with our utmost skill ; Still it eludes us, and it g litters still ; Tf seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains : What is it, but rank poison in your... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - Počet stránok 524
...our own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and tay j We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it...mighty gains; What is it, but rank poison in your veins ? As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies; Tells her, while... | |
| British poets - 1809 - Počet stránok 526
...We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill. Still it elndes us, and it glitters still : If seia'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it but rank poison in your veins t Aa Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies ; Tells her, while... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Počet stránok 556
...Pleasure, like quicksilver, 'ч bright, and coy ; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Stilt it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at...gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins • As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies ; Tells her, while... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Počet stránok 558
...hecause it is our own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is hright, and coy ; \Ve strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, ' Still it eludes us, and it glitters still: If s«iz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, hut rank poison in your veins • As Flavia... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Počet stránok 554
...our own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like irattksilvtr, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : tf SGNE'd at last, compute your mighly gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins r As Flavia... | |
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