 In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm: Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.  The Iliad of Homer, tr. by A. Pope - Page 309by Homerus - 1808Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - Classical dictionaries - 1790 - 422 pages
...coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." POPE. This fiction, than which nothing can be more beautiful, has been happily imitated by Tasso, in... | |
 | Lazzaro Spallanzani - 1799 - 422 pages
...coldest Warm : Fond love, the gentle vow , the gay desire The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire Persuasive speech , and more persuasive sighs , Silence that spoke , and eloquence of eyes. POPE, uni. de Pillai, chant xif. E si dicendo , Scioglie dal petto alabastrino il cinto , Cinto il'... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more -persuasive sighs....and smiling prest The powerful cestus to her snowy breast. 256 Then Venus to the courts of Jove withdrew ; Whilst from Olympus pleas'd Saturnia flew.... | |
 | 1807 - 550 pages
...warm ; " Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, " The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire ; " Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, •' Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." I would recommend the whole passage, which is both amusing and instructive, to the perusal of my fair... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire. Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence...Take this, and with it all thy wish, she said. With smile she took the charm ; and smiling prest The powerful cestus to her snowy breast. Then Venus to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...deceit, the still reviving fire. Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, »nd eloquence of eyes. This, on her hand the Cyprian goddess...Take this, and with it all thy wish, she said. With smile she took the charm ; and smiling prest The powerful cestus to her snowy breast. Then Venus to... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...i _ ''ft \ » J'ond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire> The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. This :•.'•*.•;: 'rrr \ ? »'" This on her hand the Cyprian goddess laid; Take this, and with' it all... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1810 - 414 pages
...cares retir'd : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. POPE'S ILIAD, B. xir. ver. 247. The warriors, from their covert, rush'd to sight, In radiant arms that... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...Persuasive speech, and more persuasive, sighs, Silence that spuke, ami eloquent- of eyes. This, On her band the Cyprian goddess laid ; Take this, and with it all thy wish, she scid. With smile she took the charm ; and smiling prest The powerful cestus to her snowy breast. Then... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...coldest warm ; Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire. The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire ; Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of ey«s." I wouici recommend the whole passage, which is both amusing and instructive) to liie perusal... | |
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