 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...when prcss'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which Love has made ! Love, free aa elm'd. Now all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of Winter, w Lst wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, An^u-st her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before true... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...thee. 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...wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before true passion all those views... | |
 | Scotland - 1822 - 916 pages
...still the power of its delineation would have consisted in its probability. If the deity of love, - at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies," why, human ties are very much inclined to return the compliment at sight of his wings. I have no idea... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1064 pages
...thee. How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! ise, and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun, What reason wea I .••! wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...thee. 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...wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before true passion all those views... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...thee. How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said. Curse on all laws but those whieh love has made ! wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and saered be her fame ; Before true passion all those views... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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...wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred'be her fame ; Before true passion all those views... | |
 | Hamel (fict.name.) - 1827 - 678 pages
...religiously abided by, as the union of the most devout and virtuous people of Europe. ' " Love, light as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Here are no ties but those of love, mutual regard, and a conscientious feeling of the propriety, if... | |
 | Christian view - 1829 - 112 pages
...of nations. " Religion," say they, " is so ecstatic a feeling, that it, like the poet's romantic " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Religion can only be genuine in a conventicle, but the moment she comes into a cathedral,she is transformed... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1830 - 150 pages
...chance of durable happiness — since she waived all vulgar prejudices, and thought like him, that Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. There was a momentary pause after this rhapsody, during which Lenoras expressive eyes spoke daggers,... | |
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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... 
