 | 1800 - 322 pages
...with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. Beauty — thou pretty plaything, dear deceit ! That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it...pulse unknown before, The Grave discredits thee : thy charms expung'd, Thy roses faded, and thy lilies soil'd, What hast thou more to boast of? Will thy... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1802 - 160 pages
...with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. Beauty! — thou pretty plaything! dear deceit! That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknowrvbefore!* •, The grave discredits thee ; thy charms expung'd, Thy roses faded, and thy lilies... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. Beauty ! thou pretty plaything ! dear deceit That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it...pulse unknown before ! The Grave discredits thee: thy charms expung'd, Thy roses faded, and thy lilies soil'd, What hast thou more to boast of? Will thy... | |
 | James Lackington, Allan Macleod - 1804 - 162 pages
...with lines such as the following : — 41 Beauty ! thou pretty plaything ! dear deceit ! That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it...pulse unknown before ! The Grave discredits thee: thy charms expung'd, Thy roses faded, and thy lilies soil'd, What hast thou more to boast of? tWill thy... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1806 - 286 pages
...passage to you as it is not very long: " Beauty ! thou pretty plaything ! dear deceit " That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, " And gives...unknown before ! " The grave discredits thee : thy charms expung'd, " Thy roses faded, and thy lilies soiPd ; ' ' What hast thou more to boast of? will... | |
 | 1806 - 184 pages
...with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. Beauty ! thou pretty plaything ! dear deceit ! That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it...pulse unknown before ! The grave discredits thee : thy charms expung'd, Thy roses faded, and thy lilies soil'd. What hast thou more to boast of? Will thy... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. Beauty — thou pretty plaything, dear deceit ! That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it...pulse unknown before, The Grave discredits thee : thy charms expung'd, Thy roses faded, and thy lilies soil'd, What hast thou more to boast of? Will thy... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...with blunt troth acquaints us what we are. Beauty!—thou pretty plaything, dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it...pulse, unknown before, The grave discredits thee : thy charms expunged, Thy roses faded, and thy lilies soiled, What hast thou more to boast of ? Will thy... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. Beauty.! thou pretty plaything ! dear deceit! That steals , At evening's peaceful hour. To shun the noisy paths of wealth and fame. And breathe our sorrows i thce: thy charms expung'd, Thy roses faded, and thy lilies poil'd, What hast thou more to boast of?... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. Beauty—thou pretty plaything, dear deceit! That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it...pulse unknown before, The Grave discredits thee : thy charms expung'd. Thy rose* faded, and thy lilies soil'd, What hast thou more to boast of? Will thy... | |
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Thy roses faded, and thy lilies soil'd, What hast thou more to boast of? Will thy lovers Flock round thee now, to gaze and do thee homage ' Methinks I see thee with thy head low laid ; Whilst surfeited upon thy damask cheek, The high-fed worm, in lazy... 
