 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 136 pages
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend : "Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it, when they give no more. As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry miserable night ; 220 Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 pages
...I. 638. Cp. Pope's Moral Essays, Epist. ii. 235-40: Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night.' l. 646. Cp. Thomson's Seasons, Autumn, l. 1238 : ' What... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 pages
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it when they give no more. As hags hold Sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry miserable night; 240 Still round and round the Ghosts of Beanty glide,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 pages
...defend, i It grows their age's prudence to pretend; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it, when they give no more: As hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night; THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER 249 and round the ghosts of beauty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1916 - 160 pages
...At last, to follies Youth could scarce defend, It grows their Age's prudence to pretend; Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it, when they give no more: 72 So these their merry, miserable Night; 240 Still round and round the Ghosts of Beauty glide, And... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 pages
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it, when they give no more: As hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night; Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...last, to follies Youth could scarce defend, 235 It grows their Age's prudence to pretend ; Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it,...no more: As Hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable Night; 240 Still round and round the Ghosts of Beauty glide,... | |
 | Norman Furlong - 1946 - 196 pages
...At last, to follies Youth could scarce defend, It grows their Age's prudence to pretend ; Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it,...Still round and round the Ghosts of Beauty glide, And haunt the places where their Honour dy'd.1 There is no other voice quite like that in the whole... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...last, to follies Youth could scarce defend, 235 'Tis half their Age's prudence to pretend; Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it,...than spight, So these their merry, miserable Night ; 240 Still round and round the Ghosts of Beauty glide, And haunt the places where their Honour dy'd.... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pages
...that prepares us for the discursive. Here are the lines that just precede the passage cited above: As Hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spight, So...Still round and round the Ghosts of Beauty glide, And haunt the Places where their Honour died. These doomed women maybe the object of discursive admonitions,... | |
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Still out of reach, yet never out of view ; Sure, if they catch, to spoil the toy at most, To covet flying, and regret when lost : At last to follies youth could scarce defend. 
