 Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes United cast too fierce a light, Which blazes high, but quickly dies, Pains not the heart, but hurts the sight. Love is a calmer, gentler joy, Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace, Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That...  Musa Proterva: Love-poems of the Restoration - Seite 39herausgegeben von - 1889 - 128 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 Seiten
...Dorset : — " Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes United, cast too fierce a ligbt. Which blazes high, bat quickly dies ; Pains not the heart, but hurts the sight. " Love is a calmer, gentler joy : r. Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace ; Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That runs his link full... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 402 Seiten
...only forty-six. * These defects are probably magniEed in the verses of Lord Dorset: — M Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes United, cast too fierce a light, Which blazes high, but quir.kly dies: Paios not the heart, but hurts the eight. " Love is a calmer, ove is a calmer, gentler... | |
 | 1835 - 740 Seiten
...f Evelyn, i. 579. J These defects were probably magnified in the verses of Lord Dorset : Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes United cast too fierce a light,...blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face. however insisted, and she yielded, upon condition that, if he was ever again prevailed upon to dissolve... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 376 Seiten
...only forty-six. b These defects are probably magnified in the verses of Lord Dorset : — " Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes United, cast too fierce a light,...a calmer, gentler joy : Smooth are his looks, and soil his pace ; Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face." revived passion,... | |
 | 1835 - 736 Seiten
...were probably magnified in the verses of Lord Dorset : Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes United cut too fierce a light, Which blazes high, but quickly dies, Pains not the heart, but hurts the sight. Lore is a calmer, gentler joy, Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace, Her Cupid is a blackguard boy,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 Seiten
...have too much of that at sea. With a fa, &c. DORlNDA'S sparkling wit and eyes, United, cast too fieree a light, Which blazes high, but quickly dies, Pains...blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face. StH CH AHLES SEPLET, the son of Sir John Sedley, of Aylesford, In Kent, was born about tt.,;:'. The... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 Seiten
...have too much of that at sea. With a fa, &e. DORINDA'S sparkling wit and eyes, United, cast too fieree a light. Which blazes high, but quickly dies, Pains...blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face. SIR CHARLES SF.DLEY, the son of Sir John Sedley, of Aylesford, in Kent, was horn ahout 1639. The first... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1838 - 256 Seiten
...fiti'ifM b, -?"- />/;»- Lei; . itd fy The' THE DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND. " Love is nil gentleness and joy ; Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace ; Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That rubs his link full in your face ! " EARL ov DOIISET. IF any faith may be given to the scandalous chronicles... | |
 | 1838 - 406 Seiten
...of Dorset wrote two lampoons upon her, in one of which he ridicules her fierce wit, and adds : — " Love is a calmer, gentler joy, Smooth are his looks and soft his fece ; Her Cupid is a black-guard boy, That runs his link full in your face." and bishop Burnett furnishes... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 Seiten
...Let's hear of no inconstancy, We have too much of that at sea. With a fa, la, la, la, la. DORINDA'S sparkling wit and eyes, United, cast too fierce a...blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face. GEORGE STEPNEY. [Bora, 1«B. Did. 1707.] GEOROE STEPNEY was the youthful friend of Montague, Earl of... | |
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