 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 - Page 3721839Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1891 - 672 pages
...•without blame : — Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven. Milton. For them art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me. Prior. You are a much greater loser than me. Swift (Quoted by Latham in his ' Dictionary.') "When questioning... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...breast. " So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : STo matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but...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.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...effect may give; Poor Lubin fears that he shall die, His wife that he may live." "Then finish, dearCloe, 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.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...way, They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, Arid let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For thou art...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE. I SENT for Radclifle ; was so ill, That other doctors gave me over :... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...what beauties I saw in my way, They were but my visits, but thou ait 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. ПГЕ REMEDY WOUSE THAN THE DISKASE. I SENT for RadcIüTe ; was so ill, That other doctors gave me... | |
 | American essays - 1893 - 958 pages
...better if he had never departed from the simplest forms. Prior could beg of his Chloe, — u Let U8 like Horace and Lydia agree, For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, Aa he waa a poet eubliiner than me ; " but the very sublimest of writers of English light verse have... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1858 - 500 pages
...come; No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; l They were but my visits, but thou art my home. 7 Then finish, dear Cloe, this pastoral war; And let...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. PALLAS AND VENUS. AN EPIGRAM. THE Trojan swain had judged the great dispute, And Beauty's power obtained... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - Language and languages - 1860 - 412 pages
...author who does not use this diction, despite Dr. Lowth's effete criticism. 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. 142 between these tongues. Our early writers use most for very, as the very least, the very last, best,... | |
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