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" The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. "
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D. - Page 34
by James Boswell - 1810 - 414 pages
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1

George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...so much more concentrated, and on the whole so superior, that I omit transcribing the original — " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, " Begs for...what ills from beauty spring, " And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. " Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, " Whom pleasure keeps too busy...
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Hogarth Restored: The Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth, as ...

William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 pages
...originals. To the fate of this lady Dr. Johnson has a beautiful allusion in his Vanity of Human Wishes: " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, " And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king." The original picture once adorned the old great room on the right hand of...
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Works, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...wise ! From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. * The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom Pleasure keeps too busy to be...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious lor her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills from beanty spring; And Sedly curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...From Marlu'roup'h's eyes the streams of dotage And Swift expires a dnv'lcr and a show, [flow , The J ho, with a borrow'd name And profer'd service to thy palace came, Now ciill'd P ; . i Ver. 260—315. et SACRED AND MORAL. 1 « V;,ne could t«U what ills from beauty spring : .VndixfUey...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...wise! From Mario' rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift exp'res a drivMer anJ a show. U The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedlcy curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom pleasure keeps...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...wise ? From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes ! Whom pleasure keeps too busy to...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...wise i From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage And Swift expires a driveller and a show, [flow, The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that plea&'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes! Whom pleasure keeps too busy to be...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pages
...began, and where it ended. Dr. Johnson said, " It is much, now, that his lordship can distinguish so." In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, there is...could tell, what ills from beauty spring, "And Sedley curs' d the charms which pleas'da king." Lord Hailes told him, he was mistaken in the instances he...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 20

John Britton - 1813 - 1036 pages
...year should be withdrawn. To this circumstance it probably was, that Johnson alluded in these lines : Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd the King. By the Countess of Dorchester James had a daughter first married to James,...
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