 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 608 pages
...chance to 'scape, Rivals and falsehood soon appear In a more dreadful shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they receive the sum, It hardly does them good. 'T is cruel to prolong a pain, And to defer a bliss, Believe me, gentle Hermione, No less inhuman is.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1905 - 524 pages
...chance to 'scape, Rivals and falsehood soon appear In a more dreadful shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they...good, Tis cruel to prolong a pain, And to defer a bliss, Believe me, gentle Hermoine, No less inhuman is. An hundred thousand oaths your fears Perhaps... | |
 | English poetry - 1906 - 218 pages
...chance to 'scape, Rivals and Falsehood soon appear In a more dreadful Shape. By such Degrees to Joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they...Oaths your Fears Perhaps would not remove, And if I gazed a thousand years I could no deeper love. FAIR Aminta, art thou mad To let the World in me Envy... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...chance to 'scape, Rivals and falsehood soon appear 15 In a more dreadful shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they receive the sum, It hardly does them good. ю THE EARL OF ROCHESTER 211 Tis cruel to prolong a pain ; And to defer a bliss, Believe me, gentle... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...chance to 'scape, Rivals and falsehood soon appear 15 In a more dreadful shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they receive the sum, It hardly does them good. 20 'T is cruel to prolong a pain; And to defer a bliss, Believe me, gentle Hermione, No less inhuman... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1908 - 398 pages
...they chance to 'scape, Rivals and falsehood soon appear, In a more cruel shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood; So slowly they receive the sun, It hardly does them good. 'T ig cruel to prolong a pain ; And to defer a joy, Believe me, gentle... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...chance to 'scape, Rivals and Falsehood soon appear In a more dreadful shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they...Believe me, gentle Celemene, Offends the winged boy. 500 i An hundred thousand oaths your fears Perhaps would not remove, And if I gazed a thousand years... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1911 - 578 pages
...chance to 'scape, Revels and falsehood soon appear In a more dreadful shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they...prolong a pain, And to defer a joy, Believe me, gentle Celimene, Offends the winged boy. An hundred thousand oaths your fears Perhaps would not remove, And... | |
 | Cornelia Mitchell Parsons - Quakers - 1911 - 378 pages
...fear, Which, if they chance to 'scape Rivals and falsehoods soon appear, In a more dreadful shape. "'Tis cruel to prolong a pain; And to defer a joy,...Believe me, gentle Celemene Offends the winged boy. " A hundred thousand oaths your fears Perhaps could not remove; And if I gazed a thousand years I could... | |
 | Edward Bliss Reed - English poetry - 1912 - 638 pages
...approaches Prior's To a child of quality. Occasionally he introduces an epigrammatic turn to his verse: " "Tis cruel to prolong a pain, And to defer a joy, Believe me, gentle Celemene, Offends the winged boy."2 but he relies chiefly on the ease of his style. Two other songs of Sedley deserve notice: "Phillis... | |
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scape, Rivals and Falsehood soon appear In a more dreadful shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they receive the sum, It hardly does them good. 'Tis cruel to prolong a pain; And to defer a joy, Believe me, gentle... 
