 | Jonathan Swift - 1735 - 502 pages
...Cadenus with each Day declines, And he muft fall a Prey to Time,While fhe continues in her Prime.' CADENUS, common Forms apart, In every Scene had kept his Heart ; Had figh'd and languifh'd, vow'd and wrir, For Paftime, or to fhew his Wit : • But Books, and Time, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 456 pages
...And he must fall a prey to time, While she continues in her prime. Cadenus, common forms apart, 540 In every scene had kept his heart ; Had sigh'd and...languish'd, vow'd and writ, For pastime, or to show his wit. But books, and time, and state affairs, Had spoil'd his fashionable airs : 545 He now could praise,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 352 pages
...Cadenus with each day declines : And he must fall a prey to time, While she continues in her prime. Cadenus, common forms apart, In every scene had kept his heart ; Had sigh'd and languished, vow'd and writ, For pastime, or to show his wit, But books, and time, and state affairs,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 472 pages
...Cadenus with each day declines : And hemust fall a prey to time, While she continues in her prime. Cadenus, common forms apart, In every scene, had kept...languish'd, vow'd and writ, For pastime, or to show his wit, But books, and time, and state affairs, Had spoil'd his fashionable airs : He now could praise, esteem,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 472 pages
...Cadenus with each day declines : And he must fall a prey to time, While she continues in her prime. Cadenus, common forms apart, In every scene had kept his heart ; Had s-igh'd and languished, vow'd and writ, For pastime, or to show his wit, But books, and time, and state affairs,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...Cadenus with each day declines ; And he must fall a prey to lime, While she continues in her prime. Cadenus, common forms apart, In every scene had kept his heart ; Had sigh'd and langnisli'd, vow'd and writ, For pastime, or to show his wit : But time, and books, and state-affairs,... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...declines: and he must fall a prey to time, while she continues in her prime. Cadenus, common forms a^ait, in every scene had kept his heart ; had sigh'd and...vow'd and writ, for pastime, or to show his -wit. But books, and time, and state affairs, had spoil'd his fashionable airs; • he now could praise,;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 412 pages
...with each day declines : An;l he must fall a prey to time, While she continues in her prime. Cadeuus, common forms apart, In every scene had kept his heart ; Had sigh'd and lauguish'd, vow'd and writ, For pastime, or to show his wit, But books, and time, and state affairs,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 pages
...Cadenus with each day declines : And he must fall a prey to time, While she continues in her prime. Cadenus, common forms apart, In every scene had kept...languish'd, vow'd and writ, For pastime, or to show his wit, But books, and time, and state affairs, Had gpoil'd his fashionable airs : i . He now could praise,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pages
...mood to accord exactly with his account of those petty intrigues, in which * Vol. XV. p. 232. Cadenns, common forms apart, In every scene had kept his heart...languish'd, vow'd and writ, For pastime, or to show his wit. On the contrary, the letter to Varina proposes, in the most pressing terms, matrimony as a " just and... | |
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Had spoil'd his fashionable airs: He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. His conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and the nymph his child. 
