 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...with love as a passion : Some other nymphs, with colours faint, And pencil slow may Cupid p» int, And a weak heart in time destroy ; She has a stamp,...look, inflame The coldest breast, the rudest tame. His sallies of casual flattery are sometimes elegant and happy, as that in tlumferthe Silver Pen; and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...always distinct ; as, in the following passage, he con. founds Love as a person with love as a passion : Some other nymphs, with colours faint, And pencil...look, inflame The coldest breast, the rudest tame. * His sallies of casual flattery are sometimes elegant and happy, as that in. return for the Silver... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...[estampe, Fr. stamfa, Ital.] i. Any instrument by which a distinct and lasting impression is made. Some other nymphs, with colours faint And pencil slow,...may Cupid paint, And a weak heart in time destroy : Sh* bin a itomf, and ptinu die buy. Wtl'.tr, T is gold so pure, It cannot bear the stamp without... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...Which time and use are wont to teach, The eye may in a moment reach, And read distinctly in her face. Some other nymphs with colours faint, And pencil slow,...rudest tame. THE SELF-BANISHED. IT is not that I love yon less, Than when before your feet I lay ; But to prevent the sad increase Of hopeless love, I keep... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...composition. He may be assimilated to the Lady in Waller, who could impress with " Love at first sight :" " Some other nymphs with colours faint, " And pencil...may Cupid paint, " And a weak heart in time destroy ; <c She has a stamp, and prints the boy." I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...composition. He may be assimilated to the Lady in Waller,) who could impress with " Love at first sight:" " Some other nymphs with colours faint, " And pencil slow, may Cupid paint, l " And a weak heart in time destroy ; " She has a stamp, and prints the boy." That he, however, had... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 pages
...thus, " I am glad, that you have re" turned safe," that is, " because you have rc" turned safe." " 'Tis not that I love you less " Than when before your feet I lay." Waller, Here that is equivalent to because. English writers, however, after a comparative employ as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...always distinct; as, in the following passage, he confounds Love as a person with Love as a passion : Some other nymphs, with colours faint, And pencil...look, inflame The coldest breast, the rudest tame. His sallies of casual flattery are sometimes elegant and happy, as that in return for the Silver Pen... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...always distinct; as, in the following passage, he confounds Lo as a person, with love as a passion: Some other nymphs, with colours faint, And pencil...look, inflame The coldest breast, the rudest tame. His sallies of casual flattery are sometimes elegant and happy, as that in return for the Silver Pen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...always distinct ; as, in the following passage, he confounds Love as a person with Love as a passion : Some other nymphs, with colours faint, And pencil...weak heart in time destroy ; She has a stamp, and prmts the boy ; Can, with a single look, inflame The coldest breast, the rudest tame. His sallies of... | |
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Some other nymphs, with colours faint^ And pencil slow, may Cupid paint, And a weak heart in time destroy ; She has a stamp, and prints the boy; Can, with a single look, inflame The coldest breast, the rudest tame. 
