 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 strani
...bird of Juno stooping : Melody resigns to fate. ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT. I KNOW the thing that 's dour, were no sooner read, But all the vision vanish' d from thy head. And now unveil' winy, yet a friend. \ot warp'd by passion, awed by rumour, Not grave through pride, nor gay through... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 strani
...Philomela, drooping, Softly seeks her silent mate, See the bird of Juno stooping ; Melody resigns to fate. e the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to...Plato, to the empyreal sphere, To the first good, awed by rumour, Not grave through pride, or gay tlirough folly, An equal mixture of good humour And... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 strani
...Queen, * Pope alludes to this personal defect in his Lines " On a certain Lady at Court:" " I know a thing that's most uncommon ; (Envy be silent, and...Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour ; Not grave through pride, or gay through folly — An equal mixture of good humour... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 strani
...Queen, • Pope alludes to this personal defect in his Lines " On a certain Lady at Court :" " I know a thing that's most uncommon ; (Envy be silent, and...Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour ; Not grave through pride, or gay through folly — An equal mixture of good humour... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 492 strani
...following verses; of which, however, the merit is indifferent and the compliment obscure: I know a thing that's most uncommon; (Envy, be silent, and...Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour ; Not grave through pride, or gay through folly; An equal mixture of good-humour, And... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 488 strani
...verses ; of which, however, the merit is indifferent and the compliment obscure : I know a thing that 's most uncommon ; (Envy, be silent, and attend !) I...Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour ; Not grave through pride, or gay through folly ; An equal mixture of good-humour, And... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 strani
...certainly had no view to the logical talents of the lady whom he celebrates : — " I know a tiling that's most uncommon, (Envy, be silent and attend)...reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend." Of this reasonable woman, we may venture to conjecture, with some confidence, that she did not belong... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 590 strani
...and mistress of George the Second. [And to whom Pope addressed the elegant lines beginning— • " I know the thing that's most uncommon ; (Envy, be...reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend." — ED.] cause she had not power to do so : and one is sure that a man who could deify that silly woman,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 strani
...the Second. [And to whom Pope addressed the elegant lines beginning — " I know the thing that 's most uncommon ; (Envy, be silent and attend !) I know...reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend." — ED.] VOL. III. NEW SERIES. P and even that mean exploded miser, Lord Bath, presumed to talk of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 strani
...madding throng, In wonder and oblivion drown'd, To sculpture turn'd by magic sound And petrifying song ! ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT. I KNOW the thing that's...Friend. Not warp'd by Passion, aw'd by Rumour, Not grave through Pride, or gay through Folly, An equal Mixture of good Humour, And sensible soft Melancholy.... | |
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Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear. 
