 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 páginas
...warmth, expansiveness, geniality, and entire ease and unconstrainedness ; and, as the poet tells us, Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. To the genius, then, of conversation we must make our offerings in this spirit, if we would find acceptance... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 páginas
...qualities, with the poet's loose conception of the most gross and vicious form of earthly passion : — " Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." There might be something like reason in what they say, if men were, or ought to be, the mere toys of... | |
 | 1837 - 734 páginas
...Lucretius, iv. 1177. ' tribuisse quod illi Plus videat, quam inortali concederé par est.' Line 75. 1 Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.' See Dryden's Aurungzebe. 1 Love scorns all ties, but those that are his own.' Line 104. ' Our crime... | |
 | 1837 - 738 páginas
...Lucretius, iv. 1 1 77. ' tribuisse quod illi Plus videat, quam mortali concedere par est.' Line 75. ' Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flics.' See Drycleii's Aurungzebe. ' Love scorns all ties, but those that are his own.' Line 104. '... | |
 | 1848 - 692 páginas
...unfortunately omitted in the army lists. His parents were of the Godwin school, and aware that love " At sight of human ties, " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." prudently rejected the hymeneal bond, and were contented to be fettered only by a wreath of roses.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 464 páginas
...When maistery cometh, the god of love anone Betith his winges, and farevell he is gone." CHAUCER. " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." POPI. " Perdy," l said Britomart, " the choise-is hard ! But what reward had he that overcame ? " "... | |
 | Peter Abelard, Héloïse, François Guizot - 1839 - 410 páginas
...How oft , when press d to marriage , have I said , (lurscon 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 true... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Rowan - 1840 - 510 páginas
...spoken in the language of another heroine : — " Curse on all tics but those which love has made I Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." More happy had it been for her, had she acted on a more sacred principle, and said — Curse on all... | |
 | Female freemasons - 1840 - 822 páginas
...be happy with him I adore,— there to find that bliss which flies wedded love: as Pope says:— ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.' You, my dear girl, will meet the destiny that awaits most girls of your beauty and shining parts. You... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 440 páginas
...' How oft, when pressed 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.' But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit, springing... | |
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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... 
