 For that fair female troop thou saw'st, that seem'd Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honor and chief praise ; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 641823Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...beauteous offspring shall beget ; For that fair female troop thou saw'st, that seem'd Of goddesses, _;o blithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good,...Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and compleated to the taste Of lustful appetence, losing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Spirit Taught them ; but they his gifts acknowledg'd none : Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget ; For that fair female troop thou saw'st, that seem'd Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, 615 Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Spirit Taught them, hut they his gifts acknowledg'd none. Yet they a heauteous offspring shall hegeti For that fair female troop thou saw'st, that seem'd Of goddesses, so hlithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Spirit Taught them, but they his gifts acknowledg'd none. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget ; For that fair female troop thou saw'st that seem'd Of Goddesses so blithe, so smooth, so gay, 615 Yet empty of all good wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...description of the loose female troop, who seduced the sons of God, as they are called in Scripture. ' For that fair female troop thou saw'st, that seem'd Of goddesses, so blythe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour, and chief... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...acknowledg'dnone. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget : For that fair female troop thou saw'st, that seenrd Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good, wherein consists "Woman's domestic honor and chief praise ; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, losing, to dance,... | |
 | Medora Gordon Byron - 1809 - 342 pages
...rare, Unmindful of their Maker, though his spirit Taught them, but they His gifts acknowledged none. For that fair female troop thou saw'st, that seem'd...chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste • to sing, to dance, To dress" The awful derelictions in domestic life, so prevalent at this period/'... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Spirit Taught them; but they his gifts acknowledg'd none. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget; For that fair female troop thou saw'st, that seem'd...gay, Yet empty of all good wherein consists Woman's domestick honour and chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...description of the loose female troop, who seduced the sons of God, as they are called in scripture. For that fair female troop thou saw'st that seem'd...Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and complealed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress and troule the tongue, and... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1813 - 278 pages
...great Milton says, Yet they a beauteous offspring shall begel. For that fair female troop lhnu saw'sl, that seem'd Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so...Woman's domestic honour and chief praise; Bred only and compleated to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and... | |
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