 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1900 - 518 strani
...majesty has made my daughter a Countess, it is fit I should do all I can to make his daughter a Queen." " Yet Vane could tell what ills from Beauty spring, And Sedley curs'd the form that pleased a King." (Johnson's Vanity of Human U'i'.nt'..\ Catherine Sedley, on being made Countess... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 404 strani
...Mr. Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, we find some observations respecting the lines in question :— ' In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of human Wishes there is the...for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane," etc. 'Lord Hailes told him [Johnson] he was mistaken in the instances be had given of unfortunate fair... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 strani
...wise: From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show! cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom Pleasure keeps too... | |
 | 1904 - 376 strani
[ Prikaz vsebine te strani ni dovoljen ] | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 strani
...wise: From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show! The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face; Yet Varfe could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphs... | |
 | Max Lissner (i. e. Karl Max) - 1905 - 124 strani
...Darauf scheint eine anspielung Samuel Johnsons in der „Vanity of Human Wishes" deutlich hinzuweisen: „Yet Vane could tell what ills from Beauty spring, And Sedley curs'd the form that pleased a king."s) ') Sein tagebuch endet mit dem 31. Mai 1669. 2) Cit. nach Allibone's Dictionary... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 strani
...dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, 320 Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane...could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, When Pleasure keeps too... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 strani
...dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, 320 Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane...could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, When Pleasure keeps too... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 strani
...danger attending on female beauty is mentioned, has very generally, I believe, been misunderstood : " Yet VANE could tell what ills from beauty spring. And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king." The lady mentioned in the first of these verses was not the celebrated Lady... | |
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The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. 
