In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence... Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 42edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
| Pierre Flourens - Blood - 1801 - 456 pages
...the zone, unbrac'd, With various skil1 and high embroid'ry grac'd, In this was ev'ry art, and ev iy charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, die gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, gnd more persuasive sighs,... | |
| Literature - 1805 - 420 pages
...music of resistless whisper'd sounds, " That from the wisest steal their best resolves."' " In this was every art, and every charm " To win the wisest,...gentle vow, the gay desire, " The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, " Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, " Silence, that spoke, ^nd eloquence... | |
| Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...eye, the ruddy face, « Beauty unchaste, is beauty in disgrace ;" And yet in them is ev'ry. art and charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond...love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, and still reviving fire, Languor that fascinates, all conqu'ring charms, That tempts the sage, and... | |
| Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...from her fragrant breast the aone unbrac'd, 245 With various skill and high embroidery graced. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest,...the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more -persuasive sighs. Silence that spoke, and eloquence... | |
| Fashion - 1807 - 472 pages
...omitted the molle /'aci (soft kisses), of Tasso, fur they ¿eem to be essentially necessary. " In this was every art, and every charm, " To win the wisest, and the coldest warm; " Fond luve, the gentle vow, the gay desire, л The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire; " Persuasive speech,... | |
| Torquato Tasso - 1807 - 338 pages
...wondrous cestus— ] The idea of this girdle is from the s of Homer, winch Juuo borrows ot" Venus. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest and the coldest warin : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving tire, Persuasive... | |
| Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...from her fragrant hreast the zone unhrac'd, With various skill, and high emhroidery grae'd. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest,...the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving 6re, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...from hiT fragrant breast tlic zone unbrac'd, With various skill, and high embroidery grac'd. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest,...the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the pa.y desire, The kind dcreit," the still reviving fire. Persuasive speech, and more persuasive, sighs,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...from her fragrant breast the zone unbrac'd, With various skill, and high embroidery grac'd. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest «arm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire. Persuasive... | |
| Aristoteles - 1811 - 644 pages
...And as Homer says, [speaking of her cestus,] . I » . • / •'':*. . • • . : • i i1 In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest,...vow, the gay desire, ', .•..-( The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, • •« • . Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence, that spoke,... | |
| |