 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 σελίδες
...can distinguish so.' In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, there is the following passage : 'The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs, for each...face : Yet Vane could tell, what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley curs'd the charms which pleas'da king4.' Lord Hailes told him, he was mistaken in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 478 σελίδες
...can -diftinguifh fo:" In Dr. Johnfon's Vanity of Human Wifhest the;e is the following paflage : " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, ." Begs, for...face : " Yet Vane could tell, what ills from beauty Spring ; " And Sedley curs'd the charms which pleas'da king." Lord Hailes told him, he was miftaken... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 σελίδες
...From Marlb'rough's eyes the ftreams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a (how. The * teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each...a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty fpringj And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rofy lips and radiant eyes, Whom... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 σελίδες
...\ From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each...a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 σελίδες
...188—288. 33. From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage jLow,] The celebrated Duke. •ibid. The teeming mother, anxious for her race. Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : ] Ver. 389 — 345. ibid. — Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ;] The late Lady, whose... | |
 | 1789 - 228 σελίδες
...flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for eath birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley .curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 σελίδες
...benuty.] — Two popular lines in Johnfon's Vanity of Human Wifhes, feem applicable in this place : — " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty fpring ; And Sedley curs'd the charms which plcas'da king." Our Milton, who, like Euripides, has fome very fevere reflections upon... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 σελίδες
...— Tw« popular lines in Johnfoil's Vanity of Human Withes, feem applicable in this place ; — " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty fpring ; And Sedley curs'd the charms which pleas'da king." Our Milton, who, like Euripides,, has fome very fevere reflections upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 σελίδες
...! From Marlb'rough's eyes the ftreams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and afhow. * The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a fees ; Yet V ane could tejl what ills from beauty fpring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 σελίδες
...can ever be offended with the mention of her beauty. Ibid. vol. 7, p. 18. ^ THE DANCES Of BEAUTY. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each...a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from Beauty spring, And Sedley curs-d the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom... | |
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The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. 
