Where ever-restless, busy Strife, Leaves look'd-for Happiness behind. There flattery o'er my youthful cheek Has spread a momentary glow ; There vanity has made me seek The gilded roofs of hidden woe. There have I seen neglected Worth, Abash'd, decline... The Friend of Women - Pàgina 194per Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert - 1803 - 196 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Catherine Rebecca Talmash (lady Huntingtower.) - 1793 - 130 pàgines
...momentary glow; There Vanity has made me seek The gilded roofs of hidden Woe. There have I seen negle&ed Worth, Abash'd, decline her honest head, While Vice...By Pride and Adulation led. There Envy steeps the poisonM dart, To strike at Merit's open breast ; • There smooth, insinuating Art Deceives the wisest... | |
| Baroness Catherine Rebecca Grey Talmash Huntingtower, Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners - 1794 - 174 pàgines
...-- I 've left the gayer paths of life, Where Reason ne'er could Pleasure find, Where ever restless, busy Strife Leaves look'd-for Happiness behind. There...the poison'd dart, To strike at Merit's open breast ; The Nobles, who were wont to raise To Liberty a spotless shrine, To Av'rice now devote their days,... | |
| 1796 - 616 pàgines
...gilded roofs of hidden Woe. * There have I feen negleftcd Wortl>f Abaih'd, decline her hondl he;id, While Vice in gaudy robes came forth, By Pride and Adulation led. * There Envy fteeps the poifon'd dart, To (trike at Merit's open bread'; There fmooth, infinuuting Art Deceives... | |
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