 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases : There broken vowe he spo promises, and sick man's prayers, The smiles of harlots, and the tears of heirs, Cages for gnats, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...there. There Heroes' wits are kept in pond'rous vases, 115 And Beaux in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows, and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of riband bound, The courtier's promises, and sick men's pray'rs, The smiles of harlots, and the tears... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...lovers' hearts with ends of riband bound, The courtier's promises, and sick men's pray'rs, The smiles of harlots, and the tears of heirs, 120 Cages for gnats, and chains to yoke a flea, Dry'd butterflies, and tomes of casuistry. But trust the Muse — she saw it upward rise,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...there. There Heroes' wits are kept in pond'rous vases, 115 And Beaux in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows, and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of riband bound, The courtier's promises, and sick men's pray'rs, The smiles of harlots, and the tears... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases : There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribbon bound ; The courtier's promises, and sick man's prayers, The smiles of harlots, and the tears... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...there, There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And heaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-easc a ; There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of riband bound ; The courtiers' promises, and sick-man's prayers, The smiles of harlots, and the tears... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux in snuff-boxes and tweezer-eases : light; Then eited every living thing, To hear the mandates of his king. " Ungra riband bound ; The eourtier's promises, and siek man's prayers, The smiles of harlots, and the tears... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of ribbon bound, The courtier's promises, and sick man's pray'rs, The smiles of harlots, and the tears... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...there : There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaus' in snuff-boxes and tweezer cases : ap, than wisdom's grave disguise. 240 Like buoys, that never riband bound; The courtier's promises, and sick man's prayer«, The smiles of harlots, and the tears... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...there. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases : 116 There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers' hearts with ends of riband bound ; The courtier's promises, and sick men's prayers, The smiles of harlots, and the tears... | |
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Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on earth are treasur'd there. There heroes' wits are kept in pond'rous vases, And beaux in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers... 
