When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging; and by favours lost. Cruel by nature, they for kindness hate ; And scorn you for those ills themselves create. If on your fame our sex a blot has thrown, 'Twill ever stick, through malice... 'Recommended to mercy' [by M.C. Houstoun]. - الصفحة 68بواسطة Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1862عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Edward Young - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging ; and by favours lost. Cruel by... | |
| Edward Young - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...Life swarms with ills; the boldest are afraid; ^Vhere then is safety for a tender maid ? vOL. Iv. G Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes! When kind, most cruel; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging; and by favours lost: Cruel by nature,... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging; and by favours lost. Cruel by... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...precepts trust. Life swarms with ills : the boldest are afraid; Where then fc safety for a tender maid? d, When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging, mid by favon lost. Cruel by nature... | |
| British poets - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foetl When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging ; and by favours lost : Cruel... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...precepts trust. Life swarms with ills; the tallies! arc afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid f Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; wlien oblig'd the most, The least obliging ; and by favuurs lost. Cruel by... | |
| William Creech - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...female breast. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid f Unfit for conflict — round beset with woes — And man, whom least she fears — her worst of foes ! When kind — most cruel; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging ; and by favours lost. Cruel... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid : Where then is safety for a tender maid ? VOL. VIII. H Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging ; and by favours lost. Cruel by... | |
| 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...Female. — Life swarms with ills; the boldest ar« afraid; Where, then, is safety for a tender maid? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes! When kind, most cruel; when oblig'd the most. The least obliging; and by favours lost. Cruel by nature,... | |
| Edward Young - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...precepts trust. Life swarms with ills ; the boldest are afraid ; Where then is safety for a tender maid ? Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes, And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes ! When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging; and by favours lost. Cruel by... | |
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