| Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 764 страници
...; bis wife to France. True affection united them. Voltaire wrote English verses in her praise : — Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast i1 Trifling is the inclination That by words can be express'd. In my silence see the Lover ; True Love... | |
| 1881 - 884 страници
...verse in a foreign language, are even yet as well known as they should be : TO LAURA HARLEY. " Laura, would you know the passion You have kindled in my...? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. "• In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best... | |
| James Parton - 1881 - 656 страници
...show considerable command of the language : — TO LAURA HARLEY. Laura, would you know the passion Yon have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover ; Tree love is by silence known ; In my eyes you '11 best discover... | |
| 1883 - 860 страници
...not, it must be admitted, of a high order, but as a literary curiosity they will bear repetition : — Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled...express'd. In my silence see the lover — True love is best by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. A curious fortune... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1886 - 292 страници
...not, it must be admitted, of a high order, but as a literary curiosity they will bear repetition — "Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled...express'd. "In my silence see the lover — True love is best by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." A curious fortune... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1886 - 362 страници
...curiosity they will bear repetition : — " Hervey, would you know the passion ' You have hind led in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by...express'd. " In my silence see the lover — True love is best by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." A curious fortune... | |
| 1890 - 444 страници
...crave space for the reproduction of the following verses addressed, in 1727, to Laura Harley.1 " Laura, would you know the passion You have kindled in my...breast, Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover, True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1891 - 928 страници
...udmired, though her husband put a speedy end to the romance : — " Laura, would you know the passion Yon have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words cnn be expressed. In my silence see the lover — True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1891 - 498 страници
...Voltaire, another of her numerous admirers, addressed a copy of verses to her beginning with the lines : Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast? •which are the only English verses now extant of his composition. They were subsequently transcribed... | |
| James Parton - 1892 - 652 страници
...passion Yon have kindled iu my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you '11 best discover All the power of yonr own. This Laura Harley was the wife of an English merchant,... | |
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