 | 1890 - 398 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... | |
 | 1895 - 756 страници
...celebrated by Voltaire in English verse to the following effect : — TO LADY HERVEY. Hervey, would yon 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 beet discover... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 436 страници
...verse ; his lines, which will be found in Dodsley's collection, are as follow : "TO LADY HERVEY. " Hervey, would you know the passion, You have kindled...? 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,... | |
 | William Henry Wilkins - 1901 - 460 страници
...Voltaire, who met her during his visit to England, celebrated her beauty in English verse, as follows : — Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled...? 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 Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 426 страници
...English verse ; his lines, which will be found in Dodsley's collection, are as follow: "TO LADY HERVEY. " Hervey, wo'uld you know the passion, You have kindled...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,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901 - 524 страници
...joint ballad in her praise. Voltaire, another of her admirers, addressed to her verses beginning : — Hervey, -would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? These are the only English verses by Voltaire extant. She married, in 1720, John, Lord Hervey (Pope's... | |
 | Caesar Litton Falkiner - 1902 - 418 страници
...Hervey her son, the Bishop, appears to have derived the two characteristics which had the strongest 1 ' Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled...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... | |
 | Hugh Noel Williams - 1905 - 404 страници
...unscrupulous lover. The charming lines, in English, which he addressed to Lady Hervey, beginning— " Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast," written in the late autumn of 1746, as Maurice was on the point of setting out for Paris, where he... | |
 | Thormanby - 1907 - 372 страници
...in our language, which for that reason, not for any intrinsic merit, are worth reproducing here. , 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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 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 discover... | |
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Hervey, 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, All the power of your own. 
