 VI. ON MRS. CORBET, Who died of a cancer in her breast '. Here rests a woman, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense : No conquest she, but o'er herself, desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride...  Poétique anglaise - Página 309de Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 páginas
...pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense ; No conquest she, but o'er herself, desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinced that Virtue pnly is our own. 30 So unaffected, so compos'da mind, I have always considered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 páginas
...with plain reason, and with sober sense; No conquest she, but o'er herself, desir'd; No arts essayM, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinced that Virtue only is our own. 30 So unaffected, so compos'da mind, So firm, ret soft, so strong,,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 páginas
...with sober Sense: No Conquests she but o'er herself desired. No Arts essay'd but not to be admired. Passion and Pride were to her soul unknown, Convinc'd that Virtue only is our own. So unaffected, so composed, a mind, So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refin'd, Heav'n, as its purest gold, by Tortures... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense: No conquest she, but o'er herself, desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and...mind, So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refin'd, Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd ; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman dy'd.' 412 I... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 páginas
...desir'd; No arts essayed, but not to be admired. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinced that virtue only is our own. So unaffected, so compos'da...so refin'd, Heaven as its purest gold by tortures tried, The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died. This may be the best of Pope's Epitaphs ; but if... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 396 páginas
...pretence Bless'd with plain reason, and with sober sense : No conquests she but o'er herself desir'd, No arts essay'd but not to be admir'd. Passion and...to her soul unknown, Convinc'd that virtue only is her own. So unaffected, so compos'da mind, So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refin'd ; Heav'n, as... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 402 páginas
...but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinc'd that virtue only is her own. So unaffected, so compos'da mind, So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refin'd ; Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd ; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died. A. Pope... | |
 | 1910 - 498 páginas
...but o'er himself desir'd, 30 No art's essay'd, but not to be admir'd, Passion and pride were to bis soul unknown Convinc'd that virtue, only is our own. So unaffected, so compos'da mind, So firm, yet soll — so strong, yet so refind! . . . 85 Heaven, äs its purest gold, by torture try'd, The saint... | |
 | John Norton - 1913 - 52 páginas
...falling tear; You wish her out of heaven to wish her here." Mrs. Martha Cabot, d. in 1809, aged 60: "So unaffected, so compos'da mind, So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refin'd, Wasteing disease and pain severely tri'd, The saint sustain'd it, but the woman di'd." Capt. William... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...Longnor, Shropshire. She died at Paris, I March 1724/5. No Conquests she, but o'er herself desir'd, No Arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and Pride were to her soul unknown, 5 Convinc'd, that Virtue only is our own. So unaffected, so compos'da mind, So firm yet soft, so strong... | |
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