| British poets - 1809 - 490 страници
...SILENT LOVER T)ASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and str •J- The shallow murmur, but the deep are d So, when affections yield discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they coi Theythat are rich in words must needs disc They are but poor in that which makes a lov Wrong not,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 страници
...iniquitous, and which his commission to Guiana" had virtually revoked. THE SILENT LOVER. PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come ; They that are rich... | |
| Thomas Henry Lister - 1826 - 252 страници
...the sentiments of the last speaker;" it was therefore plain that he was still in town. CHAPTER XXII. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb ; So when affections yield discourse, it seems Passions are likened best to floods and streams ; The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They... | |
| sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 страници
...knowledge pure it is her worth to know : With Circes let them dwell that think not so ! The silent Lover f. PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams :...discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they corne : They that are rich in words must needs discover, They are but poor in that which makes a lover.... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 страници
...serve to bring forth that, have a most just title to be princes over the rest. — Sir P. Sidney. XXXV. Passions are likened best to floods and streams; The...discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they comeThey that are rich in words must needs discover, They are but poor in that .which makes a lover.... | |
| Henry Neele - 1830 - 582 страници
...Statesman, that Patriot, that Poet, that Hero, Sir Walter Raleigh! " THE SILENT LOVER. Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb ; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come ; They that are rich... | |
| Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 страници
...is, we think, one of the most graceful and elegant poems in the English language. THE SILENT LOVER. Passions are likened best to floods and streams. The...The bottom is but shallow whence they come : They who are rich in words must needs discover , They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not,... | |
| 1834 - 604 страници
...cannot keep them to myself, they positively struggle to be free.' ' What says Sir Walter Raleigh } ' Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The...seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come.' ' I suppose Agnes, you would say that a remark applicable to ' Nor have they any reason to do so; it... | |
| Garland - 1836 - 246 страници
...copy here given are wanting, while, to Mr. Ellis's Specimen, the following verses are prefixed : — Passions are likened best to floods and streams ;...come. They that are rich in words must needs discover, That they are poor in that which makes a lover. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, Born 1554, died 1586. FAINT amorist... | |
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