| Robert Burton - 1800 - 628 pages
...va oe KJ ffiOTjpov XYffl fTi'C XZ?i7j Til' tttffC. A fair woman overcomes fire and sword. * Naught under heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man and all his minde possess, As beautie's loveliest bait, that doth procure Great wairiers erst their rigor to suppress,... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1801 - 436 pages
...weapon dropped from his hands; and, conquered by her divine beauty, he threw himfelf at her feet. Naught under Heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of...and all his mind possess, As Beauty's lovely bait, which doth procure Great warriors erst their rigour to suppress. Even mighty hands forget their manliness,... | |
| Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...abstulit aror. VUGIL. How have I yielded to the dear delusion ! •I saw, and seeing, wag undone for ever. Nought under heaven so strongly doth allure The sense...beauty's lovely bait ; that doth procure Great warriors of their rigour to repress, And mighty hanTO forget their manliness, Drawn with the power of an heart-robbing... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...might ; For, with dread majesty, and awful ire, She broke his wanton darts, and quenched base desire. Nought under heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man, and all his mind possess, As beauty's love-bait, that doth procure Great warriors of their rigour to repress, And mighty hands forget their... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...might ; For, with dread majesty, and awful ire, She broke his wanton darts, and quenched base desire. Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man, and all bis mind possess, As Beauty's love-bait, that doth procure Great warriors of their rigour to repress,... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 628 pages
...Nixa SB xai <rt$r,ci>y Kai wuj xaA)¡ n¡ »«t. \ A fair woman overcomes fire and sword. h Naught under heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man, and all his mtndü possess, As beauties loveliest bait ; that doth procure (¡mit worriers erst their rigor to... | |
| G. Proctor, George Procter - United States - 1823 - 426 pages
...After this, it need scarcely be said, that the purity of female society — that spell which alone " doth procure Great warriors oft their rigour to repress, And mighty hands forget their manliness," would have been poison to them; they knew woman but as the degraded victim of appetite. These are among... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1824 - 378 pages
...dropped from his hands ; and, conquered by her divine beauty, he threw himself at her feet. Naught under Heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of...and all his mind possess, As Beauty's lovely bait, which doth procure Great warriors erst their rigour to suppress. Even mighty hands forget their manliness,... | |
| John Hobart Caunter - 1830 - 254 pages
...STANZA XVI. It tames the savage breasts ofiavage men, And melts the harsher feelings to delight. " Nought under heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man and all his mind possess As beauty's love-bait, that doth procure Great warriors of their rigour to repress, And mighty hands forget their... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1838 - 372 pages
...morning, as he had half-foreseen and foretold, Lord Vargrave was delirious ! 342 • LEGARD. CHAPTER VI. " Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man, and all his mind possess, As Beauty's love-bait." SPENSER. LEGARD was — as I have before intimated — a young man of generous and excellent... | |
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