 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1813 - 610 pages
...was. Love is not full of pity, as men say, But deaf and cruel where he means to prey. Even as a Bird which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth and oft' flutters with her wing. And now she wish'd this night were never done, And sigh'd to think upon tlr approaching sun ; For much... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 398 pages
...Yet there with Sysiphus he toil'd in vain, Till gentle parley did the truce obtain. * Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth and oft...Treason was in her thought, And cunningly to yield lierself she sought. Seeming not. won, yet won she was at length : In such wars women use but half... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 388 pages
...Yet there with Sysiphus he toil'd in vain, Till gentle parley did the truce obtain. * Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth and oft...like that Which made the world, another world begat * The Editor of the Select Early English Poets has judiciously transposed this couplet from its situation... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1850 - 380 pages
...Love is not full of pity, as men say, But deaf and cruel where he means to prey. ยง Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth, and oft flutters with her wing] "The Editor has taken the liberty to alter the situation of this couplet, which as it originally stands... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1876 - 474 pages
..."shallow." D ever, of) VR "our after at." K daintia] VR " daintie." ** /Oman) VR " Icemen." Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth, and oft...trembling strove : this strife of hers, like that Which mode the world, another world begat Of unknown joy. Treason was in her thought, And cunningly to yield... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...did the truce obtain. Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth, and oft nutters with her wing, She trembling strove; this strife of...Which made the world, another world begat Of unknown joy.t Treason was in her thought, And cunningly to yield herself she sought. Seeming not won, yet won... | |
 | Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1878 - 576 pages
...Yet there with Sisyphus he toiled in vain, Till gentle parley did the truce obtain. Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth, and oft...Which made the world, another world begat Of unknown joy.t Treason was in her thought, And cunningly to yield herself she sought. Seeming not won, yet won... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 394 pages
...we wring, Forth plungeth, and oft flutters with her wing, 280 1 Fetched. - Some eds. give "shallow." She trembling strove : this strife of hers, like that...herself she sought. Seeming not won, yet won she was it length : In such wars women use but half their strength. Leander now, like Theban Hercules, Enter'd... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 400 pages
...Yet there with Sisyphus he toil'd in vain, Till gentle parley did the truce obtain Even 3 as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth, and oft flutters with her wing, 2So 1 Fetched. 2 Some eds. give "shallow." 3 In the old eds. this line and the next stood after 1.... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 pages
...Yet there with Sisyphus he toiled in vain. Till gentle parley did the truce obtain. Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth, and oft flutters with her i wing, She trembling strove ; this strife of hers, like that Which made the world, another world begat... | |
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Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth, and oft flutters with her wing, She trembling strove: this strife of hers, like that Which made the world, another world begat Of unknown joy. 
