 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1794 - 508 pages
...welth a ftraw } For care, I care not what it is; I feare not fortunes fatall law : 40 My mind is fuch as may not move For beautie bright or force of love. I wifh but what I have at will ; I wander not to feeke for more ; I like the plaine, I clime no hill... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...My minde is such as may not moue For beautie bright, nor force of loue. %. I wish 'out what 1 haue at will, I wander not to seeke for more, I like the plaine, I clime no hill, In greatest stornies I sit on shore; And laugh at them that toyle in vaine, To get what iBust bee lost... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...not Cresus' welth a straw ; For care, I care not what it is ; I feare not fortunes fatall law : 40 My mind is such as may not move For beautie bright...like the plaine, I clime no hill ; 45 In greatest stormcs I sitte on shore, And laugh at them that toile in vaine To get what must be lost againe. I... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...I care not what it is ; I fear not fortune's fatal law : My mind is such as may not move For beauty bright or force of love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek for more ; I, like the plain, I climb no hill ; In greatest storms I sit on shore, And laugh at... | |
 | Excerpta Tudoriana - English poetry - 1814 - 350 pages
...what it is; I fear not Fortune's fatal law. My mind is such as may not move For Beauty bright, nor force of Love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek for more; I like the plain ; I climb no hill ; In greatest storms I sit on shore, And laugh at... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 280 pages
...what it is; I fear not Fortune's fatal law. My mind is such as may not move For Beauty bright, nor force of Love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek .for more; I like the plain ; I climb no hill ; In greatest storms I sit on shore, And laugh at... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...I know not what it is ; I iVar not Fortune's fatal law. My mind is such as may not move For beauty bright, or force of love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek for more ; I like the plain, I climb no hill ; In greatest sturms 1 sit on shore, And laittth... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...mind could never bear. I fear no foe, nor fawn on friend ; I loath not life, nor dread mine end. " I wish but what I have at will, I wander not to seek for more : I like the plain, I climb no hill, In greatest storms 1 sit on shore, And laugh at... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1823 - 524 pages
...weigh not Cresus' welth a straw; For care, I care not what it is; I feare not fortunes fatall law : 40 My mind is such as may not move For beautie bright...I sitte on shore, And laugh at them that toile in vainc To get what must be lost againe. I kisse not where I wish to kill; I feigne not love where most... | |
 | William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 pages
...weigh not Cresus' welth a straw ; For care, I care not what it is ; I feare not fortune's fatall law : My mind is such as may not move For beautie bright...seeke for more; I like the plaine, I clime no hill ; In greatest stormes I sitte on shore, And laugh at them that toile in vaine To get what must be lost... | |
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Croesus' wealth a straw; For care, I care not what it is; I fear not fortune's fatal law; My mind is such as may not move For beauty bright, or force of love. I wish but what I have at will; I wander not to seek for more; I like the plain, I climb no... 
