 Through richest purple, to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless Nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first, and then a claw With many an ardent wish She stretched, in vain, to reach the prize— What female heart can gold despise...  Miscellaneous Poetry - Página 138de Herbert Kynaston - 1841 - 151 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 402 páginas
...to language and sense ; but there is no good use made of it when it is done ; for of the two lines, What female heart can gold despise ? What cat 's averse to fish ? the first relates merely to the nymph, and the second only to the cat. The sixth stanza contains... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 páginas
...hapless nymph with wonder saw; A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She strcteh'd, in vain, to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise f What Cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous maid! with looks intent Again she streteh'd, again she bent,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 páginas
...nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize, What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish? Presumptuous maid! with looks intent Again she stretch'd, again she bent, Nor... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 páginas
...Nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize, What female heart can gold despise ? What cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous Maid ! with looks intent Again she stretch'd, again she bent, Nor... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 páginas
...hapless Nymph with wonder saw.; A whisker first, and then a claw. With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd in vain to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish? Presumptuous Maid ! with looks intent Agam she stretch'd, again she bent, Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...Funduntur, viola sublucet purpura nigrae." Virg. Georg. iv. 274. With many an ardent wish, She strctch'd, in vain, to reach the prize : What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous Maid ! with looks intent 25 Again she stretch'd, again she bent,... | |
 | 1826 - 310 páginas
...nymph with wonder saw ; A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise ? What cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous maid ! with looks intent Again she stretch'd, again she bent, Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 páginas
...nymph with wonder saw ; A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise? What Cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous maid ! with looks intent Again she stretch'd, again she bent, Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 páginas
...nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, ' She stretch'd in vain to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise 1 What cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous maid ! with looks intent Again she stretch'd, again she... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd in vain to reach the prize ; What female heart can...? Presumptuous maid ! with looks intent, Again she stretch'd, again she bent, Nor knew the gulf between. (Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd,) The slippery... | |
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