 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 446 pages
...yet that competence and leisure quickly mitigated this severity, and the society of colonists became to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learned to fiow. Postscript — Since the foregoing pages were prepared for the press, I have had in my bands... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...hurts with wit. We conquer'd France, but felt our captive'« charms ; Her arts victorious triumph'd oans, While the sad father answers groans with gronni ; Tears after tears his mournf learn'd to flow. Wilier was smooth ; bot Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1830 - 234 pages
...that competence and leisure quickly mitigated this severity, and the society of colonists became , to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learned to flow. POSTSCRIPT. Since the foregoing pages were prepared for the press, I have had in my hands several copy... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1832 - 460 pages
...yet that competence and leisure quickly mitigated this severity, and the society of colonists became to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learned to flow, Postscript. — Since the foregoing pages were preptr;d for the press, I have had in my hands several... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...hurts with wit. We conquer' d France, but felt our captive's charms ; Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth* ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 292 pages
...in the translation of Pope : — ' We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms — Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms ; Britain to soft...flow.' Ten years then, before Joan of Arc's execution, 11 viz., about 1420 (if we are to believe JPope), or even fifteen years, France had a great domestic... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 304 pages
...in the translation of Pope : — ' We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms — Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms ; Britain to soft...learned to flow.' Ten years then, before Joan of Arc's execution,11 viz., about 1420 (if we are to believe Pope), or even fifteen years, France had a great... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 300 pages
...in the translation of Pope : — ' We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms — Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms ; Britain to soft...learned to flow.' Ten years then, before Joan of Arc's execution,11 viz., about 1420 (if we are to believe Pope), or even fifteen years, France had a great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...heals with morals what it hurts with wit. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms ; Britain to soft...foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learned to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...hurts with wit. We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms ; Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding... | |
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Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. 
