 | Jane Porter - 1817 - 236 pàgines
...worthy lords and gentlemen had all to a man, adopted the oracle of the poet, that, " Love fleet as air, at sight of human ties, " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies !" They all professed to adore lady Sara Capel ; some were cauzht hy her heauty, others hy her... | |
 | 1822 - 932 pàgines
...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 why, human ties are very'much inclined to return the compliment at sight of his wings. I have no idea... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pàgines
...when press'd to 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... | |
 | 1822 - 880 pàgines
...still the 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun, What rea flies. I .••! wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame;... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pàgines
...when press'd to 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pàgines
...when press'd to 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pàgines
...when press'd to marriage, have I said. Curse on all laws but those whieh love has made ! Love, free as oes well, flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and saered be her fame ; Before... | |
 | Hamel (fict.name.) - 1827 - 678 pàgines
...religiously abided 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,... | |
 | Christian view - 1829 - 112 pàgines
...Religion," 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... | |
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How oft, when press'd to 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... 
