 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
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 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...much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer then me. Matthfw Prior, xcvi. PHYLLIDA, that loved to dream In the grove, or by the stream ; Sigh'd... | |
 | Henry Marmaduke Hewitt, George Beach - 1889 - 866 pàgines
...by persons having business. 26. The cake was soon divided between half a dozen hungry urchins. 27. Thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me. 28. I can hardly tell you how much pains have been spent on this work. 29. Thou, Nature, partial Nature,... | |
 | David Salmon - 1890 - 318 pàgines
...Then Phoebe started. ' Why,' thought she, ' The babe is near as fair as me.' Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war And let us like Horace and Lydia...than her As he was a poet sublimer than me. . The nations not so blest as thee Must in their turns to tyrants fall. Who counted the money ? Both the... | |
 | David Salmon - 1890 - 322 pàgines
...Then Phoebe started. ' Why,' thought she, ' The babe is near as fair as me.' Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war And let us like Horace and Lydia...than her » As he was a poet sublimer than me. The nations not so blest as thee Must in their turns to tyrants fall. Who counted the money ? Both the... | |
 | 1890 - 984 pàgines
...finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree ; For thou art a girl so much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." " The Turtle and Sparrow," an " elegiac tale," written upon the death of Prince George of Denmark, may serve... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 pàgines
...beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, hut 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.... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 pàgines
...what 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. Matthew Prior. PHYLLIDA, that loved to dream In the grove, or by the stream; Sigh'd on velvet pillow.... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 pàgines
...with wand'ring all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw on my way — They were but my visits, but thou art my...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." Style and humour are happily blended in his Ballad of the Thicf and the Cordelicr. His odes and his... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pàgines
...o'er earth '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...than her As he was a poet sublimer than me.' " The grammatical lapse in these last two lines," says Mr. Austin Dobson, "perhaps calls for correction,... | |
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