| Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean? 210 Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me? Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, e'er thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. 0 Cynthia! why so pale? Dost thou lament 215... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...lamented, none that has read the " Night " Thoughts" (and who has not read them ?) needs to be informed. Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain j And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. Yet how is it possible that Mr. and Mrs. Temple... | |
| Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. O Cynthia ! why so pale ? Dost thou lament Thy... | |
| Edward Young - Emotions - 1802 - 146 pages
...died not long after, and to these successive dissolutions, Young alludes in these remarkable lines : Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain ; thrice e'er thrice yon mooa had filled her horn. Mr. and Mrs. Temple are thought to be the Philander... | |
| Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...dear Narcissa. I was walking in a place called In this celebrated poem he thus addresses Death : " Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? " Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain J " And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. These lines have been universally understood... | |
| Edward Young - English poetry - 1802 - 412 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. O Cynthia ! why so pale ? Dost thou lament Thy... | |
| Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...dear Narcissa. I was walking in a place called Iii this celebrated poem he thus addresses Death : " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ' " Thy shaft flew thrice> and thrice my peace was slain ; " And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. These lines have been universally understood... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...lamented, none that has read the " Night " Thoughts" (and who has not read them ?) nee'ds to be informed. Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice •, and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had iill'd her horn. Yet how is it possible that Mr. and Mrs. Temple... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1805 - 686 pages
...her much-lamented relatives: how neatly together their deaths occurred the poet himself informs us. Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain ! And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn ! To the sorrow Young felt at his losses, the... | |
| Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 238 pages
...vil. They begin now to verge from their bigotn, *» and allow them at least to be men, though n-tf " Insatiate archer! could not one suffice ? " Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace wa " slain; " And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd he " horn. " christians, I believe); and that... | |
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