 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1830 - 150 pàgines
...durable happiness — 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pàgines
...press'd to marriage, have I said ; Curse on all laws but those which love has made ! Love, free as ens an unknown journey takes ; If chance a swelling brook his passage fliei. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1831 - 482 pàgines
...these worthy 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,... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1834 - 336 pàgines
...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." And again — • " Should at my feet, the world's great master fall, " Himself, his Throne,... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1834 - 406 pàgines
...Somehow, the worthy lords and gen,, all to a man adopted the oracle of the poet x that,, " Love fleet as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in. a momen,i flics '" They all professed to adore lady Sara Capel; dome were caught by her beauty, others... | |
 | Henry Ware - 1835 - 160 pàgines
...paralyzing effect of legal shackles, though there is no doubt but, in common cases, ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.'" " Have you said all you wish to say 1 " said Anna. " Not quite," replied he, with a smile... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 460 pàgines
...widow's notions of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Frankeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie : Whan maistrie... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 pàgines
...widow's notions of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Frankeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie : Whun maistrie... | |
 | Edward Strutt Abdy - 1835 - 434 pàgines
...poverty, drives Love out of the window ; and that the little god, at the sight of human blood, as "at the sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." The weather was at this time so cold, that fires were to be found in all the houses. The winter... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pàgines
...when press'd to marriage, have I said ; Curse on all laws hut those which love has made! Love, free as Pope flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dome, August her deed, and sacred he her fame ; Before... | |
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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... 
