 | 1778 - 378 pages
...concealment, repeating that of Cowley : Th' adorning thee with fo much art, Is but a barb'rous ikill ; Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. . The Pict ftood before him in the utmoft confulion, with the prettieft fmirk imaginable .on the finifhed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...freedom by the fpirit of the fentiment. Th' adorning thee with fo much art Is but a barb'rous flcill, 'Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. Coivley leems to have pofTefied the power of writing eafily beyond any other of our poets, yet his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...freedom by the fpirit of the fentiment. Th' adorning thee \vith fo much art Is but a barb'rous fkiil, 'Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. Cowley feems to have pofleflfed the power of ^writing eafily beyond any other of our poets, yet his... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...concealment, repeating that of Cowley : " Th* adorning thee with fo much art, " Is but a barbarous Ikill j " 'Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, " Too apt before to kill." The Pi£t flood before him in the utmoft confufion, with the prettieft fmirk imaginable on the finifhed... | |
 | Lord Francis Garden Gardenstone - 1791 - 294 pages
...pleafantly expreffed by Cowley ;— " Th" adorning thee with fo much art Is but a barb'rous Ik ill, 'Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill."' I RETURN to my manufactory:—they ufe coal for fire, which is brought from a pit about three leagues... | |
 | William Hay - 1794 - 352 pages
...loft this polite and ingenious Stanza: " Th' adorning thee with fo much art Is but a barb'rous fkill; 'Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill." Every Mother (like her irf Juvenal *) hath praydd in the Temple of Venus for the moft exquifite Beauty... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pages
...from his concealment, repeating that of Cowley : TV adorning Thee with so much art, Is but a barb'rous skill : 'Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. The Pict stood before him in the utmost confusion, with the prettiest smirk imaginable on the finished... | |
 | 1803 - 614 pages
...universities on the continent, appointed to read " Th' adorning thce with so much art * " Is but a barb'rous skill; " "Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, " Too apt before to kill ;" we should conclude that he was distinguished by happy ease both of thought and expression. It was... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...needlesse instrument; Nature had given thee darts could better kill. Markham's Devorax, 1597. Attiring thee with so much art, Is but a barbarous skill; Tis...like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. ANECDOTES OF THE LATE THOMAS DAY, ESQ. AUTHOR OF SANDFORB AND MERTON, &C. &C. (From Memoirs of Dr.... | |
 | 1805 - 570 pages
...needless instrument ; Nature had given thee darts could better kill/ Markham's Devoras. ' Attiring thee with so much art, Is but a barbarous skill ; 'Tis like the pois'nir)? of a dart, Too apt before to kill.' Modern Song, (vice Waller.) Who but Mr. Pratt and his... | |
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Th' adorning thee with so much art, Is but a barbarous skill ; 'Tis like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. 
