 Ye beauteous orphans, since in silent dust Your best example lies, my precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her...  An essay on immorality [in verse]. - Página 14por Essay - 1766Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 páginas
...since in silent dust Your best example lies, my precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 páginas
...since in silent dust Your best example lies, my precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...since in silent dust Your best example lies, my precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foetl When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1811 - 294 páginas
...since in silent dust Your best example lies, my precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And many whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind most cruel ; when oblig'd... | |
 | William Creech - 1815 - 440 páginas
...eminent degree. May they he indelibly fixed in every female breast. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict — round beset with woes — And man, whom least she fears — her worst of foes ! When kind — most cruel;... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 páginas
...since in silent dust Your best example lies, my precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; when obliged... | |
 | 1837 - 352 páginas
...mother. — Samucl Butler. 427. Advice to a Young Female. — Life swarms with ills; the boldest ar« afraid; Where, then, is safety for a tender maid? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes! When kind, most cruel; when oblig'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1844 - 352 páginas
...since in silent dust Your best example lies, my precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 páginas
...Deprives them of their outward liberty, Tliuir inward lost. Milton. Life swarms with ilia; the boldest are afraid; Where, then, is safety for a tender maid? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes; When kind, most cruel; when oblig'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1859 - 376 páginas
...since in silent dust Your best example lies, my precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel; when oblig'd... | |
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