 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 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 dome, August her deed, and sacred he her fame ; Before true passion all those views... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...JIow 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 sacked be her fame ; Before true passion all 'those views... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 490 pages
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all ? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1837 - 732 pages
...Lucretius, iv. 1177. ' tribuisse quod illi Plus videat, quam inortali concederé par est.' Line 75. 1 Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.' See Dryden's Aurungzebe. 1 Love scorns all ties, but those that are his own.' Line 104. ' Our crime... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 pages
...qualities, with the poet's loose conception of the most gross and vicious form of earthly passion : — " Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." There might be something like reason in what they say, if men were, or ought to be, the mere toys of... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 pages
...warmth, expansiveness, geniality, and entire ease and unconstrainedness ; and, as the poet tells us, Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. To the genius, then, of conversation we must make our offerings in this spirit, if we would find acceptance... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 738 pages
...Lucretius, iv. 1 1 77. ' tribuisse quod illi Plus videat, quam mortali concedere par est.' Line 75. ' Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flics.' See Drycleii's Aurungzebe. ' Love scorns all ties, but those that are his own.' Line 104. '... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...unfortunately omitted in the army lists. His parents were of the Godwin school, and aware that love " At sight of human ties, " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." prudently rejected the hymeneal bond, and were contented to be fettered only by a wreath of roses.... | |
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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... 
