 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. 2/ Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or wheth'er he at lasts descends... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 pàgines
...deduced from the preceding narrative, or the perusal of the correspondence hetween the lovers. It hegins with the well-known lines, — But what success Vanessa...jocularly to intimate the danger attending the intimacy hetween Cadenus and Vanessa, it were in vain to inquire. But to hrand Swift as a seducer, and Miss... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pàgines
...to have been the intention of the author to soothe the passion which the unfortunate Miss Vanhomfigh was unable to subdue. One passage in it has given...intimacy between Cadenus and Vanessa, it were in vain to enquire. But to brand Swift as a seducer, and Miss Vanhomrigh as his victim, on account of a single... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1830 - 582 pàgines
...whether it will not be thought a greater breach of delicacy to have refused than to have complied : — But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet ; Can never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious muse unfold.' The next day Bruce observed that... | |
| |
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... 
