 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 pages
...still, But with^^HKpation to be ill, Promott ^^Ht, delights in strife, ittery of life. : she's kind ; I in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay,...away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly resign' d : Content with poverty, my soul I arm ; And virtue, tho' in rags, will keep me warm. John... | |
 | 1867 - 526 pages
...of the Horatian philosophy, which you have latterly so much forgotten : 'I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the flirting thing away.' These used to be favourite lines with you." " Alas, alas !" he exclaimed, grasping... | |
 | 1873 - 860 pages
...what the poet says of " Popularity : " " I will applaud her when she's kind, But when she dances on the wind And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the runagate away 1 " Thackeray said of American women that they were "handsome, discontented creatures."... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...of life. I can enjoy lier while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her svings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly reiugn'a Content with poverty, my soul I arm • And virtue, though in rags, will keep me wann What... | |
 | How - 1873 - 222 pages
...Promotes, degrades,1 delights in strife, And makes a lottery 2 of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the treacherous jade away. The little or the much she gave is quietly resigned : Content with poverty,... | |
 | 1873 - 824 pages
...what the poet says of ' Popularity : ' "'I will applaud her when she's kind, But when she dances on the wind And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the runagate away ! ' " Thackeray said of American women that they were ' handsome, discontented creatures.'... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 456 pages
...went on, 'or to adopt the more beautiful paraphrase of l)ryden : — ' I can enjoy her while she's kind, But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.' To give another instance in which Canning used the same quotation as Pitt — ' Stetimus tela aspera... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...rags. Cf. Horace, Odes, iii. 29, 54 ; " Mea virtute me involve," with Dryden's noble translation, — " Content with poverty my soul I arm ; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm." 814 Swallows usually depart about the beginning of October, though some few stragglers may appear on... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 pages
...paraphrase of Lryden : — ' I can enjoy her while she's kind, But when she dances in the wind, AnA shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.' To give another instance in which Canning used the same quotation as Pitt — ' Stetimus tela aspera... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...diligence ; Prudence at once, and fortitude, it gives, And, if in patience taken, mends our lives. DRYDEN. Content with poverty, my soul I arm ; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. DRYDEN. By thrift my sinking fortune to repair, Though late, yet is at last become my care ; My heart... | |
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I can enjoy her while she is kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute aw,ay... 
