 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...How об, when press'd to marriage, have I said ; Curse on all laws but those which love has made ! wide through fens an unknown journey takes ; If chance a swelling brook his passage fliei. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before... | |
 | Samuel Beazley - 1830 - 372 pages
...continued he, taking up an open volume, " see what Pope says on the master passion of our natures : " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings—— " " Oh, my Lord, forbear your arguments, lest you should dazzle me by their brilliancy, into a premature... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1831 - 482 pages
...maiden charms, these worthy lords and gentlemen had, to a man, adopted the oracle of the poet — " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies!" They all professed to adore Lady Sara; some were caught by her beauty, others by her eclat, but none... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - Apologetics - 1834 - 336 pages
...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." And again — • " Should at my feet, the world's great master fall, " Himself, his Throne, his world,... | |
 | Jane Porter - English fiction - 1834 - 406 pages
...Somehow, the worthy lords and gen,, all to a man adopted the oracle of the poet x that,, " Love fleet as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in. a momen,i flics '" They all professed to adore lady Sara Capel; dome were caught by her beauty, others... | |
 | Henry Ware - Christianity in literature - 1835 - 160 pages
...enough to bear the paralyzing effect of legal shackles, though there is no doubt but, in common cases, ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.'" " Have you said all you wish to say 1 " said Anna. " Not quite," replied he, with a smile that once... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 418 pages
...confin'd,'] The widow's notions of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Fraukeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie : Whan maistrie cometh,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 494 pages
...confin'd,] The widow's notions of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Frankeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie : Whun maistrie cometh,... | |
 | Edward Strutt Abdy - History - 1835 - 434 pages
...poverty, drives Love out of the window ; and that the little god, at the sight of human blood, as "at the sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." The weather was at this time so cold, that fires were to be found in all the houses. The winter had... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, 75 Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honor wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame : Before true passion all those... | |
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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... 
