 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 páginas
...every female wit ; But doom'd it then, when first Ardelia writ. Of all examples by the world confest, I knew Ardelia could not quote the best ; Who, like...her own. To write their praise you but in vain essay ; Uv'n while you write, you take that praise away : Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, But... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 páginas
...every female wit; But doom'd it then, when first Ardelia writ. Of all examples by the world confest, I knew Ardelia could not quote the best ; Who, like...praise you but in vain essay; Ev'n while you write, yovi take that praise away: Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, But shines himself till they... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 páginas
...every female wit ; But doom'd it then, when first Ardelia writ. Of all examples by the world confess'd, I knew Ardelia could not quote the best ; Who, like...her own. To write their praise you but in vain essay ; Even while you write, you take that praise away : Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 páginas
...every female wit ; But doom'd it then, when first Ardelia writ. Of all examples by the world confess'd, I knew Ardelia could not quote the best ; Who, like...her own. To write their praise you but in vain essay ; Even while you write, you take that praise away : Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, But... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 páginas
...it then, when first Ardelia writ. Of all examples by the world confess'd, I knew Ardelia could nof quote the best; Who, like her mistress on Britannia's...own. To write their praise you but in vain essay; Even while you write, you take that praise away: Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 232 páginas
...ev'ry female wit, But doom'd it then when first Adelia writ. Of all examples by the world confest, I knew Ardelia could not quote the best; Who, like her mistress on Britannia's throne, Fights & subdues in quarrels not her own. To write their praise you but in vain assay ; Ev'n while you write... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 318 páginas
...female wit ; But doom'd it then, when first Ardelia writ. Of all examples by the world confess'd, 5 I knew Ardelia could not quote the best ; Who, like...away : Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, 11 But shines himself till thev are seen no more. EPIGRAM. A BISHOP by his neighbors hated Has cause... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 484 páginas
...throne, Fights and subdues in quarrels not her own : To write their praise you but in vain essay ; E'en while you write you take that praise away : Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, And shines himself till they are seen no more." The following well - known lines are of her composition,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 páginas
...spirit. See Swift's Works, vol. iii. p. 118. — Sir W. Scott. Of all examples by the world confess'd, I knew Ardelia could not quote the best ; Who, like...her own. To write their praise you but in vain essay ; Even while you write, you take that praise away : Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, But... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 518 páginas
...by the world confest, I knew Ardelia could not quote the hest, Who like her mistress on the British throne, Fights and subdues in quarrels not her own. ",To write their praise you but in vain essay, Even while you write you take that praise away ; Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, But... | |
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I knew Ardelia could not quote the best ; Who, like her mistress on Britannia's throne, Fights and subdues in quarrels not her own. To write their praise you but in vain essay ; E'en while you write, you take that praise away : Light to the stars the... 
