| Thomas Hodgskin - 1820 - 1408 pages
...clothes, gay ornaments, and the miserable gratification of their vanity. " Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair."From such a fact, and from the facts that parents talk of such things before their daughters,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did ihun ; A sister... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, tike moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. X. Childe Harold had a mother—not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun; A sister whom... | |
| George Clinton - 1825 - 826 pages
...lay at this time in very narrow limits, it does not therefore follow that Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.' The following criticism, which appeared, shortly after the publication of ' Childe Harold,' in one... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...Mammon wins his way where Seraphs CIIILUE IIAKOLDS Sr. 10— IS. CAATO I. < li i lilc Harold li;ul a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun; A sister whom he lured, but saw her not Before his weary pilgrimage begun : If friends he had, he bade adieu to none.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros find a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1827 - 826 pages
...Latin quotation, or a reference to the customs of antiquity . CHAPTER II. Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Childe Harold. ABOUT this time, Mr. Romelee was visited by a sister, whom he had not seen for nearly twenty years.... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...power alone are woman s care, And where these are light Eros finds a ferre; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare. And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Childe Harold had a mother—not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun; A sister whom he loved, but saw her... | |
| George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...lay at this time in very narrow limits, it does not therefore follow that Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.' The following criticism, which appeared, shortly after the publication of ' Childe Harold,' in one... | |
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