 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 страници
...delicate operation of the mind, among the very nobleft efforts of Englifh poetry. Ver. 75. Love, free ES air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So in Dry-den's Aureng-Zebe : 'Tis true, of marriage bands I'm weary grown, Love [corns all ties but... | |
 | Augusta Fitzherbert (fict.name.) - 1796 - 250 страници
..." love?" That her Ladymip will much longer engrofs my roving heart, is a certain confequence, for " Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, " Spreads his light wing?, and in a moment " flies." Let Let the poor devil, his Grace, tie the gordian knot, I will no... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 428 страници
...lov'da Man. 70 Dim and remote the joys of faints I fee ; Nor envy them that heav'n I lofe for thee. How oft, when prefs'd to marriage, have I faid, Curfe...made ? Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, 75 Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. NOTES. Arduzon, near Nogent, upon the Seine. A lady,... | |
 | 1799 - 912 страници
...plea) иге of loving; but as we were well acquainted how much the mind abhors rcftraint, and that " Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment Hies," we difdained to think of any other union than that of nature and fen« jiment, when " All is... | |
 | 1799 - 622 страници
...confidered in a very different point of view. The modern philofophift, like the Cupid of the poet, " at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." By his liberal mind, female incontinence, we know, is regarded as an effort of nature to liberate herfelf... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1800 - 414 страници
...Jnfeparable companions as good-humour and port wine could make us, till love, who, as the poet fings, " At fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies," threatened in an evil hour to fet us at variance. Alike in (Indies, and alike in pleafures, the fame... | |
 | 1800 - 458 страници
...infeparable companions as good-humour and port wine could make us, till Love, who, as the poet fings, • ' At fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a mo. ment flies, threatened in an evil hour to fèt us at variance. Alike in ftudies, and alike in pleafures,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 страници
...said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made ! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, 75 Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before true passion all those views remove : Fame,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 554 страници
...anone " Betith his wingos, and farewell he is gone." Hence Pope in his Epijtle of Eloifa to Abelard : " Love, free as air, at fight of human ties " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Our poet has the fame thought in FQ iv. i. 46. " For leva XXVI. . . . Then fpake one of thofe fix ;... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 644 страници
...anone ' Betith his winges, and farewell he is gone." Hence Pope in his Epiftle of E/oifa to Abelard : ' Love, free as air, at fight of human ties ' Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Our poet has the fame thought in FQ iv. i. 46. " For love is free &c." UPTON. Then fpake one of thofe... | |
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