 THE playful smiles around the dimpled mouth, That happy air of majesty and truth, So would I draw : but oh ! 'tis vain to try ; My narrow genius does the power deny. The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's...  The Lives of Celebrated Travellers - Page 100by James Augustus St. John - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...vol. ix. p. 114. So would I draw : but, oh ! 'tis vain to try ; My narrow genius does the power deny. The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's join'd ; . Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe, With greatness easy, and with wit sincere ; With... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...vol. ix. p. 114. So would I draw : but, oh ! 'tis vain to try ; My narrow genius does the power deny. The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's join'd ; Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe, With greatness easy, and with wit sincere ; With... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 446 pages
...majesty and truth, . So would I draw (but oh ! 'tis vain to try, My narrow genius does the power deny), The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every...sincere, With just description show the soul divine, A aif the whole princess in my work should shine. t The verses are insipid enough, like most compliments... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Queens - 1834 - 524 pages
...mystery and truth, So would I draw, (but oh 'tis vain to try My narrow genius, does the power deny :) The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every...divine, And the whole princess in my work should shine." From such a reciprocation of kindness, we shall turn with regret, when we consider that the poet of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 318 pages
...power deny) The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, 5 Where every grace with every virtue 'a join'd ; Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe, With greatness...with wit sincere ; With just description show the work divine, 9 And the whole princess in my work should shine. .S 0 N G. The following Lines were sung... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...pimr ¿нач. ) The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's joinM, Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe, ' With greatness...divine, And the whole princess in my work should shine." Mr Dallaway's account of the origin and progress of the misunderstanding betwixt the two friends, fails,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...vain to try ; My narrow genius does the power deny.) ., PERIoD .] LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 2!)5 The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's join'd, Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe, With greatness easy, and with wit sincere, With just... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 410 pages
...majesty and truth, So would I draw, (but oh ! 'tis vain to try, My narrow genius does the power deny,) The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every...; With greatness easy, and with wit sincere. With jnst description shew the soul divine, And the whole princess in my work should shine. From such a... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 430 pages
...mind, Where every grace with every virtue 's join'd, Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe, WUh greatness easy, and with wit sincere, With just description...divine, And the whole princess in my work should shine." From such a reciprocation of kindness, we shall turn with regret to contemplate the unprovoked and... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 484 pages
...majesty and truth, So would I draw, (but oh! 'tis vain to try, My narrow genius does the power deny,) The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's join'd, Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe, With greatness easy, and with wit sincere, With just... | |
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