If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries, Numberless, nameless... The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine - Page 3691827Full view - About this book
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 230 pages
...you relate, The ftrength and riches of their ftate, The powder, patches, and the pins, The ribands, jewels, and the rings, The lace, the paint, and warlike...If I Should tell the politic arts To take and keep mcns hearts ; The letters, embaffies, and fpies, The frowns, and fmiles, and flatteries, The quarrels,... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 264 pages
...et ceetera. • • ii ir. Fiii fhould I now to you relate, The ftrength and riches of their flate, The powder, "patches, and the pins, .. , The ribbands,...and warlike things, That make up all their magazines : [/] — than} So fpe'lt (as many dther words in tliefe poems are) for the' fake of the rhj'ine. He... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 pages
...relate, The ftrength and. riches of their ftate ; The powder, patches, and the pins, 'lie ribbons,. jewels, and the rings, The lace, the paint, and warlike things, That make up all their magazines j If I mould tell the politic, arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embaffies, and fpies,•... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 378 pages
...'relate, The ftrength and riches of their Rate ^ The powder, patches, and the pins, The ribbons, .jewcli, and the rings, The lace, the paint, and warlike things, 'That make up all their magazines j, If I fhould tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embaffies, and fpies,... | |
| 1783 - 366 pages
...Katherine, And then a long et cetera, But mould I now to you relate The ftrength and riches of their ftate, The powder, patches, and the pins.; The ribbands,...and warlike things That make up all their magazines : It I mould tell the politic arts To take and keep mens hearts, The letters, embaffies, and fpies... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1790 - 466 pages
...And then a long Et caetera. But fhould I now to you relate The ftrength and riches of their ftate, The powder, patches, and the pins, The ribbands, jewels,...warlike things, That make up all their magazines; If I ibould tell the politick arts To take and keep men's hearts, The letters, embaffies and fpies, The... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1790 - 460 pages
...And then a long Et caetera, But íhould I now to you relate The ftrength and riches of their Mate, The powder', patches, and the pins, The ribbands,...rings, The lace, the paint, and warlike things, That malee up all their magazines; If I fhould tell the politick arts, To take and keep men's hearts, The... | |
| George Ellis - 1790 - 346 pages
...you relate The ftrength and riches of their flare, The powder, patches, and the pins, The ribands, jewels, and the rings, The lace, the paint, and warlike things, That make up all their magazines : If I mould tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embaffies, and fpies, The... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 296 pages
...you relate, The ftrength and riches of their ftate ; The powder, patches, and the pins, The ribbons, jewels, and the rings, The lace, the paint, and warlike things, That make up all their magazines ; If I mould tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embaffies, and fpies, The... | |
| English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...Jane, and Andria: And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catharine, And then a long et caetera. But should I now to you relate The strength and riches...their state, The powder, patches, and the pins, The ribbons, jewels, and the rings, The lace, the paint, and warlike things, - That make up all their magazines... | |
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