 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 páginas
...prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. 66 "Know further yet: whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced; For spirits,... | |
 | John Milton - 1918 - 236 páginas
...prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air." 97 — 102. This may be illustrated from the first Elegy, written in 1626. Milton describes his visits... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 páginas
...prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. 65 The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. ' ' Know further yet : whoever fair and chaste Eejects mankind, is by some Sylph embrac 'd ; For spirits,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 páginas
...prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, ® And sport and flutter in the fields of air. "Know further yet: whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced ; For spirits,... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - 1927 - 520 páginas
...Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of Mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air. Whatever poetry this may be, it does not lack grace : it is a charming bit of ironical fun. Or in a... | |
 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 páginas
...Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of Mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the Fields of Air. (i,61-6) Pope comes out strongly, here and elsewhere, on the side of generosity and love: Some Nymphs... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. Know further yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced: For spirits,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 páginas
...prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. Know farther yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced: For spirits,... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 2004 - 1160 páginas
...graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnomejln search of Mischief still on Earth to roam./The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair,/ And sport and flutter in the Fields of Air.' REF.23/49 Magdalen College, Oxford. 3rd. March 1949. My dear Dr. Firor, My secretary has been ill for... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 páginas
...prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. « Know further yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced (3) : For spirits,... | |
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water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. 
