 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1841 - 486 páginas
...passage in his Hudibrat, part iii. c. 1. lines 563 to 660. Pope has made use of Chaucer more literally. "Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." EloiSe to Abtlard. Warburton, in a note on these lines, alludes to this " imitation" of Chaucer, and... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1873 - 566 páginas
...youthful feelings : — " Does my hon. friend think that the sentiment of love can be restrained ? ' Lore, free as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies.' (Latu/httr.) These things are not under my control with regard to Boyal princes or anybody else. I... | |
 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1841 - 548 páginas
...interrupting me, ' I thought you superior to such vulgar preiudices. I thought you felt with me that — " Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Think of our dearer union of souls, our more lassionate, more enduring ecstasy — think of ,he joy... | |
 | 1843 - 1380 páginas
...is th wickthwack; the fourth, the devil take them that brought thee and I together." " Love, light as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." The great walking monster that does the great wrong to women is, depend upon it, Eusebius, the " brute... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 392 páginas
...: " 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. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame. Before true... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1844 - 304 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," &c., &c. POPE'S Etoisa and .Ibtlard. mystics, has not allowed them to make any distinction between... | |
 | 1844 - 784 páginas
...echo of these senuments has not yet died away. They are embodied in Pope's mellifluous line». " Lovo, free as air, at sight of human ties. Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flics. Should at my feet the world's great mailer fall, Himself his throne, his world. I'd scorn them... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1844 - 494 páginas
...ascetic " 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, aixi iu a moment flies," &c., &c. POPE'S I'.loisa and Melard. mystics, has not allowed them to make... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 276 páginas
...will recognise in these two last fine lines 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.] But the six now state their case by the mouth of one of their number. In the castle dwells • a lady... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1845 - 336 páginas
...worthy lords and gentlemen had .•ill to a man adopted the oracle of the poet, that, < 'Love, fleet as air at sight of human ties, 'Spreads his light wings, and la a moment flies!' They all professed 'o adore lady Sara Capel; some were caught by her beauty, others... | |
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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... 
