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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... "
The Imperial dictionary, on the basis of Webster's English dictionary - Página 170
por John Ogilvie - 1883
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Hints on husband-catching; or, A manual for marriageable misses, by the hon ...

Hints - 1846 - 164 páginas
...powers, he may attempt to sneer at matrimony, and cite the immortal Pope as his authority, that — " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." But, au fond he is a very domestic being. Your surest baits are flattery, and a kind of humble adoration...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the ...

Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 páginas
...thee. 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 fliee. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before...
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Aristocracy, Or, Life in the City, Tema 1

Joseph A. Nunes - 1848 - 272 páginas
...long as one may indulge in generalities ; but as soon as it comes to particulars, I say with Pope, " ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies;' and then I am what you lawyers term . non esl inventus. No ! I have a heart for the whole sex, and...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1849 - 544 páginas
...bear the idea of their coarse, inquisitive inquiries. He was too much of a gentleman ! Love, light as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies. So Mr. Soapey fled, consoling himself with the reflection that there was no harm done, and hoping for...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 páginas
...soon as maistery comes sweet love anon, Taketh his nimble wings and soon away is gone. — Spetmer. Love free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies. — Pope. ГКАКГК GRANT. NOBLE REPLY.- — John Locke, the philosopher, was persecuted by the...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...tapers, temples, swim before my sight. POPE— Eloisa to Abelard. L. 273. (See also SMITH) 9 Ixive, fallen and the weak. LOWELL — Stanzas on Freedom. Last Stanza. 10 The direst foe POPE — Epistle to Eloisa. Last Line. 10 Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers...
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Representative American Plays, 1767-1923

Arthur Hobson Quinn - 1917 - 1072 páginas
...so, could that be any bar to our happiness; for, as the poet sings — "Love, free aa air, at eight of human ties, ••Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Come then, my charming angel! why delay our bliss! The present moment is ours; the next is in the hand...
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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion 1357-1900, Volumen1

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 704 páginas
...to compare ; that couplet of Pope, in his Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard, Love, free aa air, at eight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies — is taken from Chaucer's Frankeleines Tale, Love wol not be constrained by maistrie. Whan maistrie...
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Marginalia

Luther Albertus Brewer - 1926 - 64 páginas
...that in these lines the reader will recognize the origin of Pope's couplet in the Epistle of Eloisa : "Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Hunt, doubtless with a soft chuckle, has written : "How inferior, both, to their original, Chaucer...
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Englische Studien, Volumen25

1898 - 496 páginas
...flüchtig Chaucer. In dem gedieht 'Eloisa to Abelard' heisst es (Works, vol. II, s. 241) v. 75, 76: Love, free as air, at sight of human ties. Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flics, und Pope führt dazu in einer anmerkung, ohne weitere hinzufügurig als die angäbe 'Chaucer',...
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