| 1825 - 626 strani
...personal beauty, which is so anxiously wished for, and ardently admired by all ranks of society. " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...could tell what ills from beauty spring: And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king." Johnson's Satire on the Vanity of Human Wishes. We hope we have... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 464 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...could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes ! Whom pleasure keeps... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 strani
...wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotago now And swift expires a driveller and a show. * The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for...could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king. Ye nymphe of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom Pleasure keeps too... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 strani
...wise ! From Maryborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race. Begs for...Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ;. And Sedly curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eye*, Whom pleasure keeps... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 strani
...flow,. And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show. "The teeming mother, anxious for her rtoe, •"• Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane...what ills from beauty spring ;. And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.^* Ye nymphs of rosy 1J£S_ and radiant eyes, Whom pleasure keeps too busy... | |
| 1826 - 438 strani
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| James Boswell - 1826 - 440 strani
...Tour to the Hebrides, (p. 37, 4th edit.) we find some observations respecting the lines in question: " In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes there is the following passage : The teeming mother auxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane, etc. " Lord Hailes told... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - 576 strani
...HEBRIDES, we find some observations, respecting the lines in question : " In Dr. Johnson's VANITY opHuMAN WISHES, there is the following passage : " The teeming...Begs for each birth the fortune of a face; Yet Vane," Ac. " Lord Hailes told him, [Johnson,] he was mistaken in the instances he had given of unfortunate... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - 622 strani
...some observations, respecting the lines in question : •• In Dr. Johnson's VANITY or HuMAxWisHi», fore 4с. [1749, been long kept back for want of encouragement. But in this benevolent purpose he met with... | |
| Eton miscellany - 1827 - 532 strani
...the arms of a cook-maid. Dr. Johnson, in his spirited poem, " The Vanity of Human Wishes," says, " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a ," not face (for every child is like its mother, and every mother handsome, in her own opinion ; the... | |
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