 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 pages
...passage, again, the folly of an excessive care for beauty is implied by examples, but not expressed : The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Such arguments from example as these have no... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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...a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, 'Whom... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveler and a show! The teeming mother, anxions for her re«. Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from besctr spring; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased s king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eye-,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 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...a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...: 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...a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. 724 725 Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...wise 'i From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. 320 Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eye«,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 pages
...distinguish so." In Dr. Johnson's " Vanity of Human Wishes " there is the following passage : — " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs, for...a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring : And Sedley cursed the charms which pleased a king." Lord Hailes told me he was mistaken in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 pages
...lordship can distinguish so." In Dr. Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes" there is the following passage : " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley cursed the charms which pleased a king." Lord Hailes told him he was mistaken in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 488 pages
...6 See ante, ii. 196. In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, there is the following passage : — 'The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs, for...face : Yet Vane 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 548 pages
...can distinguish so." In Dr. Johnson's " Vanity of Human Wishes," there is the following passage : " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs, for...face : Yet Vane could tell, what ills from Beauty spring ; And Sedley cursed the charms which pleased a king." Lord Hailes told him he was mistaken,... | |
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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. 
