 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 484 pages
...every face appear; Mild Dorothea*, peaceful, wise, and great, v Trembling beheld the doubtful hand^of fate; Mild Dorothea, whom we both have long' Not dared...men ':-• ; As some fair pile, yet spared by zeal arid rage, Lives pious witness of a better age ; ' '~ So men may see what once was womankind, In the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 352 pages
...sickly minds, And shakes the atheist's knees ; such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear ; Mild Dorothea *, peaceful, wise, and great, Trembling...zeal and rage, Lives pious witness of a better age 5 So men may see what once was womankind. In the fair shrine of Dorothea's mind. You that would grief... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 472 pages
...sickly mjnds, And shakes the atheist's knees ; such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear ; Mild Dorothea,* peaceful, wise, and great, Trembling...witness of a better age ; So men may see what once was woman kind, In the fair shrine of Dorothea's mind. You that would grief describe, come here and trace... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 384 pages
...sickly minds, And shakes the atheist's knees ; such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear ; Mild Dorothea,* peaceful, wise, and great, Trembling...rage, Lives pious witness of a better age ; So men m?.y see what once was womankind, In the fair shrine of Dorothea's mind. You that would grief describe,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 412 pages
...sickly minds, And shakes the atheist's knees ; such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear ; Mild Dorothea,* peaceful, wise, and great. Trembling...hand of fate ; Mild Dorothea, whom we both have long Wot dared to injure with our lowly song ; Sprung from a better world, and chosen then The best companion... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 524 pages
...sickly minds, And shakes the atheist's knees ; such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear ; Mild Dorothea, * peaceful, wise, and great, Trembling...better age ; So men may see what once was womankind, n the fair shrine of Dorothea's mind. * Sister to Sir William Temple. — S. Lady Gifford, a woman... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English poetry - 1833 - 386 pages
...shakes the atheist's knees ; such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear ; Mild Dorothea,1 peaceful, wise, and great, Trembling beheld the doubtful...hand of fate ; Mild Dorothea, whom we both have long 1 Sister to Sir William Temple.— S. Lady Gifford, a woman of great spirit and talents, who accompanied... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Authors, English - 1836 - 536 pages
...sickly minds, And shakes the Atheist's knees; such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear. Mild Dorothea *, peaceful, wise, and great, Trembling,...better age; So men may see what once was womankind, Li the fair shrine of Dorothea's mind." But he apostrophizes himself in lines which have been supposed,... | |
 | 1836 - 804 pages
...sickly minds. And shakes the Atheist's knees : such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear. Mild Dorothea, peaceful, wise and great. Trembling,...have long Not dared to injure with our lowly song, Sprang from a better world, and chosen then The best companion for the best of men : As some fair pile,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1853 - 388 pages
...shakes the atheist's knees ; such ghastly fear Late I beheld on every face appear ; Mild Dorothea,1 peaceful, wise and great, Trembling beheld the doubtful...have long Not dared to injure with our lowly song ; l Sister to Sir William Temple.— S. Lady Gifford, a woman of great spirit and talents, who accompanied... | |
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... veneration from his household, and to have been coaxed, and warmed, and cuddled by the people round about him, as delicately as any of the plants which he loved. When he fell ill in 1693, the household was aghast at his indisposition : mild Dorothea... 
