 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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