| 1791 - 198 pàgines
...Beneath her clear discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show : She sees, thro' ev'ry fair disguise, That all, but Virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. ODE L. CONTRAST To the Foregoing 'ODE TO WISDOM. Now see my Goddess, earthly born, With smiling looks,... | |
| Elizabeth Carter, Montagu Pennington - 1807 - 664 pàgines
...Beneath her clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show : She sees, thro' ev'ry fair disguise, That all, but Virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. FROM MISS WILBRAHAM. 1746. ELIZA bids me boldly try To pluck the laurel bough, And with unfading garlands... | |
| Montagu Pennington - 1808 - 442 pàgines
...her clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show: S«e St. She sees, thro' ev'ry fair disguise, That all, but Virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. FROM MISS WILBRAHAM. 1 74ft EJUZA bids me boldly try To pluck the laurel bough, And with unfading garlands... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 pàgines
...Beneath her clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show : She sees, thro' ev'ry fair disguise, That all but Virtue's solid joys Is vanity and wo. THE TRANQUIL EVENING. [IBID.] How sweet the calm of this sequester'd shore, Where ebbing waters... | |
| 1819 - 394 pàgines
...direct my soul To happiness and good ! • Beneath her clear discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show : She sees, through ev'ry...disguise, That all, but Virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe.f * See the general epistle of St. James, i. 5. 17. t [See Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xvii. p.... | |
| Rev. John Bennett - 1818 - 408 pàgines
...direct my sntii To happiness and good. ~ ,- Beneath her clear, discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly Of folly's painted show; She sees through ev'ry...with these four most interesting and pathetic lines: O when his* urn shall drink my falling tean, Thyt faithful tiuts shall shed a soft relief, Glow with... | |
| Jonathan Peele Dabney - 1821 - 316 pàgines
...her clear discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly Of folly's painted show ; She sees, through every fair disguise, That all but virtue's solid joys Is vanity and woe. 68. s. M. PATRICK. Virtuous desires. 1 O GOD ! thou just and kind, The erring mind instruct, And to... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - 844 pàgines
...Beneath her clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly, Of folly's painted show ; "She sees thro' ev'ry fair disguise, That all, but virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. 10. 2 a When a person of independent fortune, instead of leading a life of indolence, dissipation,... | |
| Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 pàgines
...clear, discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly Of folly's painted show : She sees, through every fair disguise, That all but virtue's solid joys Is vanity and woe. TO A GENTLEMAN, On his intending to cut down a Grove to enlarge his Prospect. IN plaintive sounds,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pàgines
...clear discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly, Of folly's painted show : She sees, through every fair disguise, That all, but virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. Her chief original prose compositions were letters, and two numbers in the "Rambler," Nos. 44 and 100.... | |
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