How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies, Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed,... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Página 155de Alexander Pope - 1812Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 páginas
...established order and just regulations of society, may be fully admitted. Such for instance as the lines How oft when press'd to marriage have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made. But surely it is not likely that such sentiments can impose upon the weakest and most inexperienced... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...established order and just regulations of society, may be fully admitted. Such for instance as the lines How oft when press'd to marriage have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made. But surely it is not likely that such sentiments can impose upon the weakest and most inexperienced... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...loved a man : Dim and remote the joys of saints I see ; Nor envy them that heaven I lose for thee. How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse...made ! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...whom I lov'da man. Dim and remote the joys of saints I see, Nor envy them that heaven I lose for thee. whieh love has made ! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...I loved a man. Dim and remote the joys of saints I see, Nor envy them that heaven I lose for thee. How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws hut those which love has made ! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings,... | |
| Mrs. Catherine George Ward Mason - 1825 - 976 páginas
...one of the tender epistles to her favourite Abelard, thus exurcsse* herself: — " How oft when prest to marriage have I said. Curse on all laws but those which love hat made; Not Cesar's empress would I prove, No, make me mistress to the mail I love." Lady Lavinia... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - 602 páginas
...this passion, she refused to marry her beloved Abelard. How oft, when pressed to marriage, have I uid, Curse on all laws but those which love has made : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. "Buifriendship is a calm and sedate affection, conduct«d... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...man. Dim and remote the joys of saints I see. Nor envy them that heaven I lose for thee. How об, first the hero's manly breast knew fear. A* when...forsakes. And wide through fens an unknown journey takes Spreads his light wings, and in a moment fliei. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August... | |
| Solomon Southwick - 1834 - 340 páginas
...discard the ties of Matrimony, and adopt in their stead the vicious principle suggested by Pope:— " How oft when press'd to marriage have I said, " Curse...made! " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." And again— " Should at my feet, the world's great... | |
| Solomon Southwick - 1834 - 336 páginas
...Matrimony, and adopt in their stead the vicious principle suggested by Pope : — " How oft when press' d to marriage have I said, " Curse on all laws, but...made! " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, "Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." And again — • " Should at my feet, the world's... | |
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