 The women wretched, false the men : And when, these certain ills to shun, She would to thy embraces run ; Receive her with extended arms : Seem more delighted with her charms : Wait on her to the park and play : Put on good humour ; make her gay : Be...  Poems on Several Occasions - עמוד 83מאת Matthew Prior - 1905 - 366 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 398 דפים
...real Perjuries : Where Sighs and Looks are bought and sold, And Love is made but to be told : . . . And Youth seduc'd from Friends and Fame, Must give...unconfin'd : And clap your PADLOCK — on her Mind.' It is not, however, by ' Alma,' or his tales and episodes, but by his lighter pieces, that Prior escapes... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 430 דפים
...real Perjuries ; Where Sighs and Looks are bought and sold, And Love is made but to be told : . . . And Youth seduc'd from Friends and Fame, Must give...unconfin'd : And clap your PADLOCK — on her Mind.' It is not, however, by ' Alma,' or his tales and episodes, but by his lighter pieces, that Prior escapes... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 902 דפים
...extended arms, Seem more delighted with her charme, Wait on her to the Park and play, Pat on good hnmor, make her gay ; Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind, Let all her ways be nnconfined, And clap your padlock on — her mind." Instead of clapping the padlock on her mind we... | |
 | 1896 - 244 דפים
...praise. Burns, FLOW GENTLY, SWEET AFTON. Serenely pure and yet divinely strong. Pope, SATIRES, vi. Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. Prior. Warmly pure and sweetly strong. Collins, To SIMPLICITY. Whate'er is best administer'd is best.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 דפים
...When the rough seaman's louder shouts prevai', When fair occasion shows the springing gale. PRIOR. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. PRIOR : An English Padlech. Be to her merits kind, And to her faults, whate'er they are, be blind.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 דפים
...doorway." She who found so much beauty and goodness in this spot, must have been acting on the motto, Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. It may be acknowledged that Miss Mitford's work requires pruning, though the excuse is not far to seek:... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 דפים
...January and ifay. L. 63. Woman's at best a contradiction still. m. POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 270. cuit Alter a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With obser n. PKIOB — An English Padlock. That if weak women went astray, Their stars were more in fault than... | |
 | Francis Asbury Sampson, Floyd Calvin Shoemaker - 1923 - 594 דפים
...may have been taught us even though, as a native of Missouri, he may have forgotten the old couplet, "Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind." Burns gave excellent advice which has aided all ensuing generations when he spoke of seeing "ouisel's... | |
 | 1906 - 810 דפים
...A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind, DAVID GARRICK, Prologue on Quitting the Stage, June, 1776 Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind,1 MATTHEW PRIOR, English Padlock, lines 78, 79 If she be not so to me What care I how kind she... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1907 - 402 דפים
...delighted with her charms : Wait on her to the park and play: Put on good humour; make her gay : Ke to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd; go And clap your padlock—on her mind. HANS CARVEL. ANS CARVEL, impotent and old, Married a lass of... | |
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