 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...last, compute your mighty gains, What is it, but rank poison in your veins ?" — Warton. Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it,...no more : As hags hold Sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night : 240 Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it, when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night : Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, And... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...law, 670 By tricks and lies as numerous and as keen Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night." Pujif. Moral Eis.iys, Epist. ii. 235. * " What though... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...At last, to follies youth could scarce defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Asham'd to ; he likes it not, spite, So these their merry, miserable night; Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...defend, 235 It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it, when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths, less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night; 240 Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pages
...corruption, frauds By forgery, by subterfuge of law, 670 Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night. Pope. Moral Essays. Epist. ii. 235. ** What though the... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...corruption, frauds By forgery, by subterfuge of law, 670 Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night. Pope. Moral Essays. Epist. ii. 235. 26 What though the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it, when they give no more : As hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night ; 210 Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...At last to follies youth could scarce defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it...give no more. As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry miserable night ; Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it, when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night : Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide And... | |
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Still out of reach, yet never out of view ; Sure, if they catch, to spoil the toy at most, To covet flying, and regret when lost : At last to follies youth could scarce defend. 
