 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...? From Marlb'rough's eyes the firearm of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a mow. The n teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : n Ver. 289 — 345. M 3 Yet Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty fpring ; And Sedley curs'd... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...? From Marlb'rough's eyes the ftreams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a mow. The n teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : "Ver. 289-345. Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty fpring; And Sedley curs'd the form that... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1769 - 326 pages
...daughter a queen, as he had made his own a counted. t Rerciby's " Memoirs," ^to. p. i ji . « Yet «' Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty fpring ; " And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd the king." S. JOHNSON. She underftood drcfs, and was expenfive in it to a degree of extravagance.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...From Marlb'rougk's Eyes the Streams of Dotage flow, And Swift expires a Driv'ler and a Show. The (n) teeming Mother, anxious for her Race, Begs for each...Vane could tell what ills from Beauty fpring ; And SedUy curs'd the Form that pleas'da King. Ye Nymphs of rofy Lips and radiant Eyes, Whom Pleafure keeps... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1775 - 466 pages
...withdrawn J." It was then, probably, that (he repented of having been the royal miftrefs : ««• Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty " fpring ; •' And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd the " king," 1 S. JOHNSON. f Sir Chnrles, who was very aftive againft the king ab*uttbe time... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1791 - 716 pages
...impart ! ADVICE to the FAIR SEX. [By Dr. S. Johnfon.] 'T'HE trembling mother, anxious for her •*• Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane...tell what ills from beauty fpring, And Sedley curs'd ihe form that pleas'da king. "V e nymphs of rofy lips, and radiant eyes, Whom pleaftire keeps loo bufy... | |
 | 1782 - 500 pages
...From Marlb'rough's 1 eyes the ftreams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a fhow. The m teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each...could tell what ills from beauty fpring ; And Sedley n curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rofy lips and radiant eyes, Whom Pleafure keeps... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1782 - 410 pages
...From Marlb'rough's i eyes the ftrcams of dotage flow4 And Swift expires a driv'ler and a fhow. The m teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each...could tell what ills from beauty fpring ; And Sedley n curs'd the form that pleas'da king. Ye nymphs of rofy lips and radiant eyes, Whom Pleafure keeps... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 546 pages
...diftinguifh *>•" Inl>r. Johtifon's " Vanity of Human Wijbes," there is the following paflage : " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, *' Begs, for...Vane could tell, what ills from Beauty fpring; " And Sally curfed the charms which plcafed a king." Lord Hailes told him he was miftaken, in the iuftances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1785 - 222 pages
...a driv'ler and a fliow. The * teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the foitune of a face': Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty fpring ; And Sedk.y curs'd the form that pkas'da ting. Ye nymphs of rofy lips and radiant eyes, Whom pleafure keeps... | |
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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. 
