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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... "
Letters of Abelard and Heloise: To which is Prefix'd a Particular Account of ... - Page 177
by Peter Abelard - 1760 - 186 pages
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...thee. How oft, when pressed 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...
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Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911

John Gassner - Performing Arts - 2000 - 788 pages
...puling Maria. But. even if it were so, could that be any bar to our happiness; for, as the pvet sings— "Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, "Spreads his light wings, and in a moment Hies." Come then, my charming angel! why delay our bliss! The present moment is ours; the next is in...
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A Love Treasury

David Baird - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 272 pages
...love g' .• 1n a separatIon it is the one who Is not really In love who says the more tender thIngs. Love. free as air at sight of human ties. Spreads his light wings. and in a moment ALEXANDER POPE ,"n«n ! Ashes of Life Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike; Eat l must....
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Alexander Pope and His Critics: An essay on the genius and writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 508 pages
...profane his fires, Thofe reftlefs paflions in revenge infpires. And again, § Love free as air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. It is improper for a perfon in the fituation of Eloifa to mention Cupid ; mythology is * V. 73. f Epift....
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The History of Ophelia

Sarah Fielding - Fiction - 2004 - 324 pages
...or Mistress, he should not hesitate a Moment, but prefer 1 Pope, Eloísa to Abelard (1717) 11. 75-6: Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. 2 Milton, Camus (1634) 1. 368: "And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever." 3 A senior pupil in...
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The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader

Gina Luria Walker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 352 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...
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Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

David Hume - Philosophy - 2006 - 629 pages
...Abelara. How oft, when pressed 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 momept flies. Bat friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit...
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The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic

Royall Tyler, Cynthia A. Kierner - Drama - 2007 - 158 pages
...puling Maria? But, even if it were so, could that be any bar to our happiness? for, as the poet sings, "Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."49 Come, then, my charming angel! why delay our bliss? The present moment is ours; the next...
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Elvis: the Fairy Tale

Poet Laureate Jean Elizabeth Ward - Poetry - 2008 - 149 pages
...press 'd to marriage, Have I said, curse on all laws But those which love has made! Love, free as the air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies, AND I SIGH, I sigh, when asked by all Was there one in Germany I loved over all? IN LATE MARCH ELVIS...
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