 | 1787 - 446 pàgines
...Should be approv'd in after-times, If it both pleases and endures, The merit and the praise are your's. Thou, Stella ! wert no longer young When first for thee my harp I strung : 10 Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With friendship and esteem... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 456 pàgines
...Should be approv'd in aftertimes ; If it both pleases and endures, The merit and the praise are yours. Thou, Stella; wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp was strung^ Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With Friendship... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 352 pàgines
...Should be approv'd in aftertimes; If it both pleases and endures, The merit and the praise are yours. Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp was strung, Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts; With Friendship... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 658 pàgines
...boy." For the truth of this he appeals to Stella herself in one of his poems addressed to her : . " Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp I strung; « * See the Letter alluded to by Mr. Sheridan, in the tenth T*l«me of this collection, p. 22. N.... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 554 pàgines
...Addison. " Thou who of old wert sent to Israel's court."— Prior. " All this thou wtrt." — Pope. " Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp I strung. — Swift. Shall we in deference to these great authorities allow wert to be the same with wait, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 pàgines
...Should be approv'd in aftertimes ; If it both pleases and endures, The merit and the praise are yours. Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp was strung, Without one word of Cupid s darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With friendship... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 524 pàgines
...Should be approv'd in aftertimes ; If it both pleases and endures, The merit and the praise are yours. Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp was strung, Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With friendship... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 352 pàgines
...conceived, or had not experienced, that justness of proportion, that delicacy of limb, and those pleasing and graceful attitudes, which have constituted the...creation. If you review his several Poems to Stella, yon will find them fuller of affection than desire, and more expressive of friendship than of love.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 pàgines
...hut the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest hoy." And Stella he has thus addressed : " Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for...Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or hleeding hearts : With friendship and esteem possest, I ne'er admitted love a guest."* If such was... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 380 pàgines
...Should be approved in aftertimes ; If it both pleases and endures, The merit and the praise are yours. Thou, Stella, wert no longer young', When first for thee my harp was strung, Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With friendship... | |
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Thou, Stella, wert no longer young', When first for thee my harp was strung, Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With friendship and esteem possest, I ne'er admitted Love a guest. 
