 | 1794 - 918 pages
...lofe for Ihee. HOW oft, when prcfb'd to marriage, have I faid, Curfe on all hws but thofe which luve has made : Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment íies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, Auçuft her d«d, and facred be her fjn;e ; B-.iurctrne... | |
 | Mrs. Bennett (Agnes Maria) - 1796 - 280 pages
...Ihall neither of us think it ne" ceflary to have recourfe to the dull ."beaten road of matrimony." " Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, •'*' Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Mr. Edwin, in the excefs of his rapturous ideas, ran on for fome time in this ftrain, and might have,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...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 pages
..." 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1799 - 912 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1799 - 622 pages
...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 - English literature - 1800 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...has made! Love, free as air, at light of human ties, 75 Spreads his light wings and in a moment flcs. Let wealth, let honour wait the wedded dame, Auguft her deed, and lacred be her fame; beiore true pafllon all hofe views remove; Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1800 - 458 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1801 - 270 pages
...fhe imitated the learned and delicate Eloifa, and adopted her jTublime and excellent fentiments : • "Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame : Auguft her deed, and facred be her fame. Not Caefar's emprefs would J deign to prove :— No; make me miftrefs to the man I love." But Eloifa's... | |
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