 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pàgines
...upon a more slender foundation, as I (hall presently show. The lines alluded to are the following : But what success. VANESSA met, Is to the world a secret yet : Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantick strain ; Or whether he at last... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pàgines
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet : Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain, Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pàgines
...is wise enough to read a lady's eyes, and will each accidental glance interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met, is to the world a secret yet : whether the nymph, to please her swain, talks in a high romantic strain; or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 pàgines
...preceding narrative, or the perusal of the correspondence between the lovers. It begins with the well known lines, But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world...jocularly to intimate the danger attending the intimacy between Cadenus and Vanessa, it were in vain to inquire. But to brand Swift as a seducer, and Miss... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 524 pàgines
...is wist Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet, Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 pàgines
...is wise Enough to read a lady's' eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet, Whether the nymph, to please her swain. Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pàgines
...narrative, or the perusal of the correspondence between the lovers. It begins with the well known lines, Bat -what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet, &c. I To what purpose these lines were introduced, whether from Swift's usual vein of humour, which never... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pàgines
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pàgines
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, A nd will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet : Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain, Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 556 pàgines
...deduced from the preceding narrative, or the perusal of the correspondence between the lovers. It begins. with the well-known lines, — But what success Vanessa...jocularly to intimate the danger attending the intimacy between Cadenus and Vanessa, it were in vain to inquire. But to brand Swift as a seducer, and Miss... | |
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But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or to compound the business, whether They temper love... 
