With hairy springes, we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

And pray, what had she done?" "She had been guilty of attempting to ensnare the affection of my son" began John Heron.

To particulars: How usual a thing is it for women as well as men, without the least remorse, to ensnare, to cage, and torment, and even with burning knitting-needles to put out the eyes of the poor feather'd songster [thou seest I have not yet done with birds]; which however, in proportion to its bulk, has more life than themselves (for a bird is all soul;) and of consequence has as much feeling as the human creature!

believe me, she's none of those wandering maidens, Not one of those who stroll through the land in search of adventure, And who seek to ensnare inexperienced youth in their meshes.

Could such a spirit aught ensnare? MEPHISTOPHELES Observe it well, it is not drawn with care; One of the angles, that which points without, Is, as thou seest, not quite closed.

That charm in which she's parallel'd by few, When in its toils a youth she doth ensnare He will not soon escape, I promise you.

He laid himself out to ensnare them; he played them a thousand tricks; and though several surpassed him in strength or in swiftness, he in time became the master of those that could be of any service to him, and a sore enemy to those that could do him any mischief.

His was the voice to burst forth in the rich melodies of that equivocal piecehe was the gentleman who, if ruined by excess, could become the highwaymanhis was the dashing, manly style to ensnare either a Polly or a Lucy.

Would'st thou some new Endymion ensnare? Each sparkling wave, as it receives thy rays, Seems quivering and thrilling at thy gaze; And gently murmurs, whilst the God below Feels through his frame the universal glow, And heaves his breast majestical for thee!

For while we are learning to understand the mistakes of our predecessors, time is itself producing new errors which, unobserved, ensnare us, and the account of which is left to the future historian with just as little advantage to his own generation.

She entreated; she remonstrated; she wept, and raved; but finding riches irresistible, fled away into the uplands, and lived in a cave upon such berries as she could gather, and the birds or hares which she had the fortune to ensnare, taking care, at an hour when she was not likely to be found, to view the sea every day, that her lover might not miss her at his return.

But failing thus to ensnare him, nor secure How long his foil'd ambition may endure, Plots next to lay him by as past his date, And try some new pretender's luckier fate; Whose hopes with equal toil he would pursue, Nor care what claimer's crown'd, except the true.

Hence Fenton, in his Epistle to Mr. Lambard: "By long experience, D'Urfey may no doubt Ensnare a gudgeon, or sometimes a trout; Yet Dryden once exclaimed, in partial spite, 'He fish!'because the man attempts to write.

Ensnare the clouds.

Upon which I contrived many ways to ensnare the goats, and see if I could catch them alive, particularly a she-goat with young.

I bless God my mind is drawn to seek my heaven in Jesus, although my earthly comforts are ready to ensnare me: yet having been taught to know the uncertainty of all transitory things, and that 'The fairest things below the sky Give but a flattering light,' I would, through grace strengthening me, give God my undivided heart.

Choose virtue, Richard, shun the path of vice, Let not ungodly youth your mind ensnare; Take this wise caution, "If they would entice, Consent thou not;" be sure that sin is there.

Secondly, That He never used any disguise to save His life: and, Thirdly, That He never gave an answer so ambiguous as not to embody a sufficient testimony to all that He had to say; and that, moreover, He had already satisfied those who came to interrogate Him anew, with the view not obtaining information, but merely of laying traps to ensnare Him.

But they were in God's hands; it was not his business to unsettle them; it was not his business to ensnare and coerce their faith.

These charming ladies just ensnare the big people, make them chatter, and then get together, as they did to-day, and compare the locks of hair they have snipped from their Samsons.

It sprang to the broad wings it would ensnare, Encoil, enshackle, hamper, break, drag down.

It was creditable to him, that in a court where morality was at so low an ebb as that of James I., he should have remained uncorrupted; and that not all the allurements of the numerous beauties by whom he was surrounded, and who exerted their blandishments to ensnare him, could tempt him for a moment's disloyalty to the object of his affections.

"It is some wicked device to ensnare you, I am convinced," said the old lady, clasping her to her breast.

"See," he inurmured, "I am to be allowed to play with this exquisite net to ensnare my heart; and you are not to be allowed to spend hours in state roomsalone!

Nevertheless, there was one thing that she preferred even to butter; he would ensnare her in her own weakness, catch her in her own net: he would take her a jar of cream.