 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1901 - 524 pages
...think that the passion they have inspired occasions it ; and in that case they adopt the notion, that Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though...beggar that is dumb, we know, Deserves a double pity. A propos of this subject ; what progress do you make in that language, in which Charles the Fifth said,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 218 pages
...hap to die,) '• *'' '. We '11 bury it in a Christinas pie, -^/ And evermore be merry. — WITHER.-' Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Then wrong not, dearest to my heart,... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - Fraud - 1911 - 568 pages
...Tennyson's beautiful poem on the widow of the " warrior dead " : " she nor swooned, nor uttered cry." (2) " Silence in love betrays more woe Than words though ne'er so witty," against which, however, must be set off Sir John Suckling's " Prithee, why so pale, fond love Î Prithee,... | |
 | Milton Waldman - Explorers - 1928 - 296 pages
...to the convention which demands from a fashionable poet certain lines in this vein and produces : " Silence in love betrays more woe, Than words, though ne'er so witty : A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. " Then wrong not, dearest to my heart,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1901 - 438 pages
...think that the passion they have inspired occasions it ; and in that case they adopt the notion, that Silence In love betrays more woe Than words, though...beggar that is dumb, we know, Deserves a double pity. A propos of this subject: what progress do you make in that language, in which Charles the Fifth said... | |
 | Margaret Mayo - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 164 pages
...is undemonstrative and gives to its scions the impression of merely submitting to affection ; but, Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty. The men of Libra excel in constancy to the few whom they love, for it is no more in their nature to scatter... | |
 | Hero Chalmers, Julie Sanders, Sophie Tomlinson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 354 pages
...noblesses. What an ingenious person of quality once spoke of his amours, we apply to our necessities: Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: The beggar that is dumb, you know, 30 Deserves a double pity. But be the comedy at your mercy as we are. Only we wish that you... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1842 - 882 pages
...sentiment, derived, he states, from his mother, has been coincidentally expressed by Lord CliesferficKl, " Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though...witty ; The beggar that is dumb, we know, Deserves double pity." But the most considerable effort of his fancy is his Franyou netto, the name corresponding... | |
 | 500 pages
...noblesses. What an ingenious person of quality c once spake of his amours, we apply to our necessities ; Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty : The beggar that is dumb, you know, Deserves a double pity. But be the comedy at your mercy, as we are ; only we wish that you... | |
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Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. 
