Lock,' obtained with guilt, and kept with pain, In every place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heaven decrees! Notes and Queries - Page 1731889Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, {since all tilings lost on earth are treasur'd there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows, and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribbon bound, The... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 pages
...? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on earth are treasur'd there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux in snuff-boxes and tweezer cases : There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of riband... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on Earth are treasur'd there. ld they fear ? or why did Lot engage To save their bodies from abusive tweezer-cascs : There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribband... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on Earth are treasur'd there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases : There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribband bound ; The... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...contest? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere. Since all things lost on earth are trcasur'd there. twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might : There broken vowe and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribband bound ; The... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on earth are treasured there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases : There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribbon bound ; The... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Sinee all things lost on earth are treasur'd there. The title of the great'st and bravest of her kind) To fall so far below on tweezer-eases : There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers,' hearts with ends of riband... | |
| English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...contest? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on Earth are treasur'd there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribbon bound, The courtier's... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...? Some thought it mo.unted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on earth are treasur'd there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux' in snuffboxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows, and deathbed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribbon bound, The courtier's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...alone. Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on earth are treasured there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases : 116 There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of riband bound... | |
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