 | 1852 - 874 pages
...arsna, Seem more delighted with her charm* : Wait on her to the Park and play ; Put on good-humor ; the thought, and touch the heart, be thine ! uncontin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind." A SONG. h wine and music have the power To ease... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pages
...extended arms; Seem more delighted with her charms; Wait on her to the park and play; Put on good humour; make her gay; Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her...be unconfin'd, And clap your padlock on her mind. PAULO PTTBGANTI. BEYOND the fix'd and settled rules Of vice and virtue in the schools, Beyond the letter... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Burton's AitatomyjofMelanclioly. Ft. 3. See. iv. MI Sabs. 1. MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721. An English Padlock. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. Henry and Emma. That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. The Thief... | |
 | Charles Philip Brown - 1857 - 402 pages
...base. And see also 2. VI. ]6. The lilly, &c. Prior uses quadruple rhymes : in " an English Padlock" — Be to her virtues very kind Be to her faults a little...ways be unconfin'd And clap your padlock on her mind. See also Penny Cyclop, on Alliteration and Quarterly Review 1826, vol. 34, p. 14. Such alliteration... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 508 pages
...scene, 7O Seem more delighted with her charms; 75 Wait on her to the park and play ; Put on good humour; make her gay: Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfined ; so And clap your padlock — on her mind. HANS CARVEL. HANS CARVEL, impotent and old,... | |
 | Caroline M. Mersereau - 1860 - 370 pages
...visiting the city — where your friends Will shortly find the means to gain your ends. V. 8. G. — Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. Prior. L. — By going to Church — when he will think or find, At all -events, you're morally inclined.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 pages
...extended arms, Seem more delighted with her charms, Wait on her to the Park and play, Put on good humour, make her gay; Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind, Let all her ways be unconfined, And clap your padlock on—her mind." Instead of clapping the padlock on her mind we have... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Rev. William Bull, Line 19. Virtue alone is true nobility. STEPNEY'S.— Eighth Satire of Juvenal. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. PRIOR.— An English Padlock, last Lines but two In Isaac Bickerstaff's Farce of "The Padlock," VIRTUE.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. Contemphtim. MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. An Enjlish Padlock. Be to her merits kind, And to her faults whate'er they are be blind. Prologue to... | |
 | 1883 - 494 pages
...new dressing mirrors, framed in plush, painted by hand, have the following appropriate quotation: " Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind." An Austin Toung Man was seen coming hurriedly ont of a business house which he had entered to solicit... | |
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Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind. 
