 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1752 - 154 pages
...thro' fpedacles to fee your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his fpade thefexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others doom, She plans new conquefts, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the cock has fummon'd^r/g-to away, Bhe walks at noon, and... | |
 | Edward Young - 1767 - 272 pages
...through fpeftacles to fee your charms! While rival undertaken hover round, And with his fpade Ae/exton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquefts, and dtfrauds the tomb. In vain the cock has fummon'd//ir//e/ away, She walks at noon, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 290 pages
...fpeftacles to fee your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, 505 And with his fpade thefexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquefts, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the cock has fummon'd./Jir?'to away, She walks at noon, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...fpcdtaclcs to fee your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his fpadc the lexton marks the ground, Intent not on he"r own, but others doom, She plrms new conquefts, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the cock has fummon'd fprights away, She walks... | |
 | Edward Young - 1792 - 348 pages
...through fpeftacles to fee your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his fpade thefexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquefts, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the cock has fummon'd./^rzV« away, She walks at noon, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...fpeataclcs to fee your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his fpade the fexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquefts, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the cock has fummon'd fprights away, She walks at noon, and... | |
 | Edward Young - 1799 - 314 pages
...fpeftacles to fee your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, 505 And with his fpade the fexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquefts, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the cock has fummon'd Iprif-es"aw3y, She walks at noon, and... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...each public place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks through spectacles to see your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round,...sexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but other's doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the cock has summon'd sprites... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 230 pages
...to each public place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks thro' spectacles to see your charms! While rival undertakers hover round,...away, She walks at noon, and blasts the bloom of day; Gay rainbow silks her mellow charms infold, And nought of Lyce but herself is old: Her grizzled locks... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 232 pages
...place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks thro' spectacles to see your charms I While rival undertakers hover round, And with his...away, She walks at noon, and blasts the bloom of day ; Gay rainbow silks her mellow charms infold, And nought of Lyc6 but herself is old : Her grizzled... | |
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Tis greatly wise to know before we're told The melancholy news that we grow old. Autumnal Lyce carries in her face Memento mori to each public place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms Who looks through spectacles to see your charms ! While rival... 
