 tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. " So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! "...  Blackwood's Magazine - Pàgina 3721839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pàgines
...beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace did not Thomas Moore study Prior? Love and pleasure find singers in all days.... | |
 | William Lennie - 1872 - 248 pàgines
...still, as far as I can judge, he is equal to most of us in general information. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us. like Horace and Lydia,...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.... | |
 | 1872 - 866 pàgines
...beauties I saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home. " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us, like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." Wan logic even more inconsequent, or flattery more irresistible ? Scarcely less gracefully insincere... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1872 - 168 pàgines
...troops. The entire regiment fell into the enemies' hands, and were cut off. I saw no one else but he. Thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. LESSON LX. The officer ordered his men to charge the guns ; which, in the circumstances, were natural.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pàgines
...art my home I "Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agrce : For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior? Love and pleasure n'nd singers in all days.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 pàgines
...give ; Poor Lubin fears that he shall die, His wife that he may live.' " " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war. And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior ? Love and pleasure find singers in all days.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 pàgines
...my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : Fur thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me. Prior deserves, we think, more praise as a lyrist than he has hitherto received ; for his success,... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1875 - 380 pàgines
...of their physical sufferings. 11. My malice is no deeper than a moat, No stronger than a wall. 12. Thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. 488. ' His mind is more receptive than (his mind is) inventive.' ' I would rather go than stay'=' I... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 pàgines
...home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us like Horace and Lydia agree : For tbou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me." In an ode to a lady who declines to dispute any longer with the poet, and " leaves him in the argument,"... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pàgines
...beauties I saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. A SIMILE. Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, did'st... | |
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