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
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 522 Seiten
...pity from your tears : Let 's hear of no inconstancy, We have too much cf that at sea. SONG. Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes United cast too fierce a light,...the sight Love is a calmer, gentler joy, Smooth are liis looks, and soft his pace, Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face.... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 532 Seiten
...told you all our loves, And likewise all our fears, In hopes this declaration moves SONG. Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes United cast too fierce a light, Which blazes high, but quickly dies, Fains not the heart, but hurts the sight Love is a calmer, gentler joy, Smooth are his looks, and soft... | |
| Josef Reinius - 1903 - 338 Seiten
...Killigrew, see Ox. (cf. quot. 1568). b) 1. f 'torch-bearers, link-boys'?, 1532, cf. c 1670 Earl Dorset: »Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face.* — 2. f 'the lowest menials of a royal or noble household, who had charge of pots and pans etc.',... | |
| Josef Reinius - 1903 - 330 Seiten
...Killigrew, see Ox. (cf. quot. 1568). b) 1. f 'torch-bearers, link-boys'?, 1532, cf. c 1670 Earl Dorset: »Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That runs his link, full in your face.» — 2. f 'the lowest menials of a royal or noble household, who had charge of pots and pans etc.',... | |
| 1903 - 328 Seiten
...Killigrew, see Ox. (cf. quot. 1568). b) 1. f 'torch-bearers, link-boys'?, 1532, cf. c 1670 Earl Dorset: »Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face.»—2. f 'the lowest menials of a royal or noble household, who had charge of pots and pans etc.',... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 Seiten
...pity from your tears : Let 's hear of no inconstancy, We have too much of that at sea. SONG. Belinda's sparkling wit and eyes United cast too fierce a light,...blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face. SONG. Phillis, for shame, let us improve A thousand different ways Those few short moments snatched... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 Seiten
...of that at sea— With a fa, la, la, la, la ! 1665. ON A LADY WHO FANCIED HERSELF A BEAUTY Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes, United, cast too fierce a...but hurts the sight. Love is a calmer, gentler joy; 5 Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace: Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That runs his link full in... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 Seiten
...that at sea — With a fa, la, la, la, la ! 1665. ON A LADY WHO FANCIED HERSELF A BEAUTY Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes, United, cast too fierce a...but hurts the sight. Love is a calmer, gentler joy; 5 Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace: Her Cupid is a blackguard boy, That runs his link full in... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1908 - 612 Seiten
...birth of Thomas and the death of Charles, there were a bare thirty between their lives. 3 Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes, United, cast too fierce a...quickly dies, Pains not the heart, but hurts the sight. " sparkling wit," among many other things, by the best epigram ever attributed to a king's mistress)... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 Seiten
...of love for them, Than jealousy for Thee. J. RUSKIN (Mont Blanc Revisited). 792. DORINDA DORINDA'S sparkling wit and eyes United, cast too fierce a light,...blackguard boy, That runs his link full in your face. C. SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET. 793. MAY THE AMBITIOUS EVER FIND MAY the ambitious ever find Success... | |
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