 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...Two handmaids wait the throne : alike in place, But difT'ring far in figure and in face. Here flood Ill-nature like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd ; Withflore ofpray'rs, for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fili'd! her bofbm with lampoons.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...handmaids wait the throne : alike in place, 2 5 But diff'ring far in figure and in face. Here flood Ill-nature like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd ; With ftore of pray'rs, for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd ; her bofom with lampoons. 30 There Affeftation,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...handmaids wait the throne; uliVe in place, i; Eut diff'ring far in. figure ape! in face. Here stood Ill-nature, like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd ! With store of pray'rs for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd; her bosom with lampoons. 30 There... | |
 | Voltaire - English literature - 1778 - 220 pages
...detetted glare, She fighi, foi ever on her penfive bed, Pa.n at her fide, and Megrim at her head, Iwo handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But diff'ring far in figure and in face, here flood lil-nature like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array'r! ; With ftore of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...throne : alike in place, 25 But diff'ring far in figure and in face. . fl l Here ftood 111 -nature like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd ; With ftore of pray'rs for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd ; her boforn with lampoons. 30 There Affeftation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...handmaids wait the throne i alike in place, 15 But differing far in figure and in face. Here flood Ill-nature like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form...array'd; With ftore of prayers, for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd; her bofom with lampoons, 30 There affeftation, with a fickly mien, Shows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 400 pages
...her fide, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne : alike in place, z5 But differing far in figure and in face. Here ftood Ill-nature like...ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array' d ; With ftore of prayers, for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd ; her bofom with... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...eaft is all the wind that blows. Here in a grotto, fhelter'd clofe from air, And fcreen'd in fhades from day's detefted glare, She fighs for ever on her...face. Here ftood Ill-nature, like an ancient maid, wrinkled form in black and white array'd : With ftore of pray'rs for mornings, nights, and noons, Her... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...Two handmaids wait the throne ; alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face. Here flood Ill-nature like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white array 'd ; With ftore of pray'rs, for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd ; her bofom with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...screened in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs forever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne:...place, But diffring far in figure and in face. Here stood Hi-nature like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed ; With store of... | |
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And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. 
