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" Ye lofty beeches, tell this matchless dame, That if together ye fed all one flame, It could not equalise the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart! "
Letters Supposed to Have Passed Between M. de St. Evremond and Mr. Waller - Page 149
by John Langhorne - 1809 - 220 pages
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The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...of her parts is found A pow'r, like that of harmony in found. Ye lofty beechss, tell this matchlefs dame, That if together ye fed all one flame,, It could...hundredth part, Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart f • ••• Go, boy, and carve this paffion on the bark Of yonder tree, which ftands the facred...
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The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...of her parts is found A pow'r, like that of harmony in found. Ye lofty beeches, tell this matchlefs dame, That if together ye fed all one flame, It could...hundredth part, Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart ! r Go, boy, and carve this paffion on the bark Of yonder tree, which Hands the facred mark Of Of noble...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...

Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...timber leap Into fair figures from a confus'd heap : And in the symmetry' of her parts is found. A pow'r like that of harmony in sound. Ye lofty beeches ! tell this matchless dame* That if together ye fed alt one flame, It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart !...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...figure's, from a confus'd heap : TO MY LORD OF LEICESTER... OF THE LADY. • 43 And in the symmetry of her or the cloudy night Of popery than gospel light : Others were for abolishing ! C-<x boy, and carve this passion on the bark Of yonder tree, which stands the sacred mark Of noble...
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The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...have the poems written at Penshurst, — in this strain, — Ye lofty beeches ! tell this matchles dame, That if together ye fed all one flame, It could not equalise the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart, &c. The lady was content to...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...so made stones and timber leap Into fair figures, from a confused heap : And in the symmetry of her parts is found A power like that of harmony in sound....That if together ye fed all one flame, It could not equalise the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart ! — Go, boy, and carve this...
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Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets: Biographical Sketches of Women Celebrated ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Love poetry - 1844 - 384 pages
...Dorus' flame,* Then we have the poems written at Penshurst,—in this straifl,— Ye lofty beeches! (ell this matchless dame, That if together ye fed all one...equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kmdled in my heart, &c. The lady was content to be the theme of a fashionable poet: but when he presumed...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...so made stones and timber leap Into fair figures, from a confused heap : And in the symmetry of her parts is found A power like that of harmony in sound....beeches ! tell this matchless dame, That if together ye f?d all one flame, It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart...
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The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain, Volume 5

Anne Pratt - 1855 - 612 pages
...remote from the utterances of feeling, that it awakens no sympathy for his unrequited affection : — " Ye lofty beeches, tell this matchless dame, That if together ye fed all one flame, Ye could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart." The Purley beeches,...
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The Flowering Plants of Great Britain, Volume 3

Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 430 pages
...remote from the utterances of feeling, that it awakens no sympathy for his unrequited affection:— " Te lofty Beeches, tell this matchless dame, That if together ye fed all one flame, Ye could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart." 1 COMMON IU.PCH...
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