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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I ... - Page 158
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 11

Scotland - 1822 - 880 pages
...power of its delineation would have consisted in its probability. If the deity of love, - at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies," why, human ties are very much inclined to return the compliment at sight of his wings. I have no idea...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight rt ; But when his own great work is but begun, What reason wea I .••! wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which Love has made ! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment...flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before true passion all those views remove ; Fame, Wealth,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...marriage, have I said. Curse on all laws but those whieh love has made ! Love, free as air, at sight August her deed, and saered be her fame ; Before true passion all those views remove ; Fame, wealth,...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws hut those which love has made ! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment...flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred'be her fame ; Before true passion all those views remove ; Fame, wealth,...
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Hamel, the Obeah man

Hamel (fict.name.) - 1827 - 678 pages
...by, as the union of the most devout and virtuous people of Europe. ' " Love, light as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Here are no ties but those of love, mutual regard, and a conscientious feeling of the propriety, if...
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A Christian View of the Present State of the Country, Its Causes and ...

Christian view - 1829 - 112 pages
...say they, " is so ecstatic a feeling, that it, like the poet's romantic " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Religion can only be genuine in a conventicle, but the moment she comes into a cathedral,she is transformed...
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The Separation: A Novel, Volume 2

Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1830 - 150 pages
...— since she waived all vulgar prejudices, and thought like him, that Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. There was a momentary pause after this rhapsody, during which Lenoras expressive eyes spoke daggers,...
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Thaddeus of Warsaw. Revised

Jane Porter - 1831 - 482 pages
...lords and gentlemen had, to a man, adopted the oracle of the poet — " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies!" They all professed to adore Lady Sara; some were caught by her beauty, others by her eclat, but none...
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A Layman's Apology, for the Appointment of Clerical Chaplains by the ...

Solomon Southwick - Apologetics - 1834 - 340 pages
...marriage have I said, " Curse on all laws, but those which love has made! " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." And again— " Should at my feet, the world's great master fall, " Himself, his Throne, his world,...
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