 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 510 pages
...observation that - Pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are, light Eros finds afeere; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, . And...We utterly dislike the polyglot line compounded of Greet, Saxon, and modern English ; and do not much admire the confusion of images in the others; but... | |
 | 1812 - 702 pages
...dear— But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where thefe are, light Eros finds a fcere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might defpalr. X. " Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot. Though parting from that mother he did ihun... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 708 pages
...power alone are woman's care, And, where these are, light Eros finds a feere; Maidens, like moths, afe ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. Childe Harold had a mother, — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun , A sister,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 330 pages
...dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are, light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. IX. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun; A sister... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. 12 CH1LDE HAROLD'S Canto 1. X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 322 pages
...dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. IX. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 248 pages
...dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 250 pages
...dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; . Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun; A sister... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 174 pages
...power alone are woman's care , And where these are light Eros finds a feere; Maidens , like mothi , are ever caught by glare, And Mammon, wins his way where Seraphs might despair. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister whom... | |
 | Thomas Hodgskin - Germany - 1820 - 1408 pages
...dotage and ugliness for fine clothes, gay ornaments, and the miserable gratification of their vanity. " Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair."From such a fact, and from the facts that parents talk of such things before their daughters,... | |
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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. 
