 Through life's perplexing road : The mists of error to control, And through its gloom direct my soul To happiness and good. XVI. Beneath her clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show. She sees through ev'ry fair disguise,...  The history of Clarissa Harlowe - Pagina 348door Samuel Richardson - 1883Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pagina’s
...Beneath her clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly, Of folly's painted show ; "She sees thro' ev'ry fair disguise, That all, but virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. 10. 2 a When a person of independent fortune, instead of leading a life of indolence, dissipation,... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 pagina’s
...clear, discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly Of folly's painted show : She sees, through every fair disguise, That all but virtue's solid joys Is vanity and woe. TO A GENTLEMAN, On his intending to cut down a Grove to enlarge his Prospect. IN plaintive sounds,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pagina’s
...clear discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly, Of folly's painted show : She sees, through every fair disguise, That all, but virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. Her chief original prose compositions were letters, and two numbers in the "Rambler," Nos. 44 and 100.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pagina’s
...clear discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly, Of folly's painted show ; She sees, through every fair disguise, That all, but virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. HENRY KIRKE WHITE, 1785—1806. Unhappy White! while life was in its spring, And thy young Muse just... | |
 | George Oliver - 1856 - 398 pagina’s
...whose clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly Of folly's painted show, He saw, through every fair disguise, That all but virtue's solid joys Is vanity and woe. CARTER. And impressed with the pious principle that the most effectual method of securing God's favour... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1883 - 506 pagina’s
...strife ; 7/iine are retirement's silent joys, And all the sweet engaging ties Of still, domestic life. No more to fabled names confined ; To Thee supreme,...selfish resentment, and all the violent passions, are now, most probably, asleep all around me ; and shall not my own angry ones give way to the silent... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1883 - 510 pagina’s
...through its gloom direct my soul To happiness and good. XVI. Beneath her clear discerning eye Tlie visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show. She...LETTER LV. Miss Clarissa Harlowe to Miss Howe. Friday, I HAVE now a calmer moment. Envy, ambition, high and selfish resentment, and all the violent passions,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 365 pagina’s
...XV. Oh, send her sure, her steady ray, To regulate my doubtful way, Through life's perplexing road: The mists of error to control, And through its gloom...but Virtue's solid joys Is vanity and woe. LETTER XIII. Miss Clarissa Harlowe to Miss Howe. I HAVE now a calmer moment. Envy, ambition, high and selfish... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 368 pagina’s
...Beneath her clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show. She sees thro' ev'ry fair disguise, That all but Virtue's solid joys, Is vanity and woe. N i) more to tabled names confm'dj To thec fuprar.s, aJl-rcrfuft mind, My thoughts dire£l their flight,... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - 612 pagina’s
...her clear discerning eye The visionary shadows fly Of Folly's painted show: She sees, through every fair disguise, That all but Virtue's solid joys Is vanity and woe. (1747) MARY COLLIER (1690?-c. 1762) Information about her derives largely from the 'Remarks of the... | |
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