| George Eliot - Authorship - 1884 - 404 pages
...have inspired " The Complaint," which forms the three first books of the " Night Thoughts " :— " Insatiate archer, could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn." Since we find Young departing from the truth of dates, in order to heighten the effect... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 290 pages
...and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction : — '' Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice? Thy shaft...peace was slain, And thrice ere thrice yon moon had fitl'd her horn." I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles Skinner Matthews,... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 328 pages
...to have inspired " The Complaint," which forms the three first books of the "Night Thoughts":— " Insatiate archer, could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn." Since we find Young departing from the truth of dates, in order to heighten the effect... | |
| Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard... | |
| Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard... | |
| Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...suddenly and how nearly together the deaths of the three persons whom he laments, happened, none who has read the " Night Thoughts," and who has not read...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." To the sorrow Young felt at his losses we are indebted for * The Irish Peerage, if... | |
| Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard... | |
| Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." " The sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's sharpest thorn hard... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - English poetry - 1896 - 316 pages
...suddenly and how nearly together the deaths of the three persons whom he laments happened, none who has read the Night Thoughts— and who has not read...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.' To the sorrow Young felt at his losses we are indebted for these poems. There is... | |
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