 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 pages
...But feigns a laugh to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. ' DAPHNIS. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green, She runs,...unseen/ While a kind glance at her pursuer flies, s How much at variance are her feet and eyes ! ' 1 Originally thus in the manuscript: Pan, lot my numbers... | |
 | 1871 - 630 pages
...examples, elude, like escape, assumes, metaphorically, an active force in matters without action. " The gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades eludes her eager swain." Pope. To EVADE (Lat. evadere) is to go out of the way or reach of a tiling or person. It is commonly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...lambs or sheep for victims I'1l impart, Thy victim, Love, shall be the shepherd's heart. STREPHON. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in...around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. DAPHNIS. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green, She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen ;... | |
 | 1873 - 466 pages
...perish in eternal shade. ER 's /trsi f astoral. STREPHON. E gentle Delia beckons from the plain, , hid in shades, eludes her eager swain; But feigns...around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. DAPHNIS. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green ; She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen :... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...their charms we owe; Such happy spots the nice admirer take, Fine by defect, and delicately weak. POPE. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green ; She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen. POPE. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought, But never, never reach'd one generous thought... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...The other modern (who it must be confessed hath a knack of versifying) hath it as follows. Sfrcph. the imaginative and judging power, if they be not...taketh much pains, and many times not without poetical Doj>h. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green ; She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen . While... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 pages
...must be confessed, hath a knack of versifying) hath it as follows : — " Streph. Me gentle Deliah beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes...see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fail- is found. " Daph. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green, She runs, but hopes she does not... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...their charms we owe; Such happy spots the nice admirer take, Fine by defect, and delicately weak. POPE. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green ; She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen. POPE. She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought, But never, never reach'd one generous thought... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 pages
...n. The convulsion caused by merriment ; an inarticulate expression of sudden mirth peculiar to man. But feigns a laugh, to see me search around. And by that laugh the willing fair is found. /V/r Laugh (laf), vt 1. To express by laughing. The larpe Achilles, on his pressed bed lolling. From... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1886 - 598 pages
...follows : — Slreph. Me gentle Delia beckens from the plain, Then, hid in shades, chides her enger swain ; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around,...along the green, She runs, but hopes she does not rim unseen ; While a kind glance at her pursuer flies, How much at variance are her feet imd eyes !... | |
| |
Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain ; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. 
