 True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link,...  Conversation; or, Shades of difference - Page 106by Heron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Rowland Smith - English literature - 1855 - 552 pages
...live with her supposed father, but dwelt apart for the better performance of the temple services. * " It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul cau bind." Lay of the Last Minstrel, v. 14. t This incident forma... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. — Now leave we Margaret and her Knight, To tell you of... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. Canto v. St. 13. True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret...silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. Canto vi. St. 1. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...the Camp, the Grove, And Men below, and Saints above; For Love is Heaven, and Heaven is Love. Scott. TRUE Love's the gift which God hath given To man alone beneath the Heaven ! It is not Fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce Desire, £, —... | |
 | Daniel Dana Buck - 1856 - 328 pages
...Title. CHARITY. "The drying up a single tearhas more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore." Byron. "It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul cau bind." Scott. MERCY. '0 think I think upward on the thrones above;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. — Now leave we Margaret and her Knight, To tell you of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1856 - 248 pages
...woo ! " CHAPTEE XV. " True love 's the gift which God has giv'n To man alone, beneath the heav'n ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind." HAPPY love, though the most delightful in reality, is... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...men else may, love ?" replies, " Yes, you may love, fair son." " True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven, It is the secret sympathy, The silver cord, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind." Let us... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...heaven. It is not fantasy's hot fire, It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. — Now leave \ve Margaret and her Knight, To tell you... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 pages
...Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, aud mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. — Now leave we Margaret and her Knight, To tell you... | |
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