 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 páginas
...dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Childe Harold had a mother— not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister whom... | |
 | Woman - 1835 - 758 páginas
...assembly ."f For pomp and power alone are Woman's care, And where these are. light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Childe Harold. Look at the marriage-prostitution around us, * Sir Walter Scott. f Cf-YVOL. II. H —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 páginas
...dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. IX. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 páginas
...pomp and power alone are woman's care., And where these are light Eros finds a feere; Maidens, liLe moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. X. dulde Harold had a mother — not forgot, Tbough parting from that mother he did shun; A sister... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 páginas
...lemans dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care. And where these are light Eros finds a feere; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare. And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. | X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 páginas
...dear — But pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are light Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 684 páginas
...them, are any thing more than ' common clay ? I have seen many lovely ones, yet as Byron hath it : 1 Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where aeraphs might despair.' I wish, friend Peter, that we could stay a fortnight to enjoy the opening of... | |
 | 1846 - 586 páginas
...work itself is throughout a proof of their correctness. Speaking of the fair sex, he says : 1 MAIDKNS, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way, where seraphs might despair.' And again : ' FOB who would trust the seeming sighs Of wife, or paramour ? Fresh feres will dry the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 páginas
...power alone are woman's care, And where these arc lijht Eros finds a feere ; Maidens, like moths, arc nd riven. CXXIL X. Childe Harold had a mother — not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun ; A sister... | |
 | 1849 - 508 páginas
...Who knows one woman well By heart, knows all." Byron, and he knew something about them, says, — " Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair." Some of our writers give them yet a worse character. " Their rolling eies," says the nameless author... | |
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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. 
