 Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds...  Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy - Page 115by William Hazlitt - 1826 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 pages
...this lady, who became lit* wife, he had issue one son, Osborne Atterbury, and two daughters. ON A FAN. FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ ! This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love: Yet she with graceful air and mien,... | |
 | 1807 - 218 pages
...one work of mine that ne'er shall fade ! LINES WRITTEN ON THE LEAVES OF A FAN. [BY DR. ATTEEBURY.] FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ : This fan, in meaner hands, would prove An engine of small force in love ; Yet she, with graceful air and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 pages
...without flattery to the author is, I think, as beautiful in its kind as any one in the English tongue : Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air ami mem,... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 pages
...strike the balance. WRITTEN IN THE LEAVES OF A FAN, BY DR. AT'i'ERBURY, 1.4*1 L BISHOP OF R CHESTER. FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ ; This fan, in meaner hands, would prove Ail engine of wnall force ID love ; Tet she, with graceful air and... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...and, like his glorious sires, Ia copious gulps of potent ale expires. a* FRANCIS ATTERBURY. ON A FAN. FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ ! This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love : Yet she with graceful air and mien,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 796 pages
...of his writings, seems to have lad an eye to this ode when he composed the "ollowing lines on a fan: Flavia the least and slightest toy , Can with resistless art employ : This fan, in meaner hands, would prove An engine of small force in love; Yet she, with graceful air and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 pages
...without flattery to the author,0 is (I think) as beautiful in its kind as any one in the English tongue. Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 pages
...without flattery to the author, is (I think) as beautiful in its kind as any one in the English tongue. Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien,... | |
 | 1812 - 156 pages
...worse : My wife was ugly and a scold ; My Chloe was grown lean and old — Ill 112 CCCXXIV. The Fan. Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ : This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; Yet she with gentle art and mien,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...shall my propless ivy, pale and bent, Bless the short sunshine which thy pity lent. The Fan. ATTERBBRY. FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ : This fan, in meaner hands, would prove ' An engine of small force in love : l^ct she, with graceful air... | |
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