 Is sweeter than a calm estate. Give me a storm ; if it be love, Like Danae in that golden shower I swim in pleasure ; if it prove Disdain, that torrent will devour 10 My vulture-hopes ; and he 's possessed Of heaven that 's but from hell released.  Granby: A Novel ... - Page 12by Thomas Henry Lister - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1826 - 252 pages
...inclined to accuse him of a want of taste, in being so insensible to her many attractions. CHAPTER XXIIL Give me more love or more disdain; •• { • The torrid or the frigid zone; . The temperate affords me none. Either extreme of love or hate Is sweteer than a calm estate. Bring... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pages
...SONG. MEDIOCRITY II» LOTE RXJECTED. GIVE me more love, or more disdain, The torrid, or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain ; The temperate affords me none ; I :ii li. г extreme, of love or hate, Is sweeter than a calm estate. Give me a storm ; if it be... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Song. Mediocrity in Lan RijfctaL Give me more 1оте, or more disdain ; Th« torrid or the frozen die b tweeter than a calm estate. Give me a storm ; if it be IOTC, Like Danae in that golden shower, I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...tears' supplier. tttdiaerUf in IMI n&tUd. Give me more love, or more disdain ; The torrid or the frozen lowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels m ; Dither extreme of lore or hate Is sweeter than a calm estate. Give me a storm ; if it be lore, Like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...Song. lialíKríty in Lave Rtjfcttd. Give me more love, or more disdain ; The torrid or the frozen t must expire, Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceiv'st, which make hato Is sweeter than a calm estate. Disdain Returned. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires,... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1856 - 374 pages
...common both to the passage just quoted, and the one which follows, from Carew's well-known song : — Give me more love, or more disdain ; The torrid, or the frigid zone, Brings equal ease unto my pain : The temperate affords me none : Either extreme of love or hate Is... | |
 | St. George Tucker - 1857 - 370 pages
...Governor of Virginia. CHAPTER XVIII. " Give me more love or more disdain, The torrid or the frozen zone ; Bring equal ease unto my pain, The temperate...affords me none ; Either extreme of love or hate, la sweeter than a calm estate." — Tkoauu Carew. WHILE Virginia thus received the meed of merited... | |
 | 1857 - 820 pages
...common both to the passage just quoted, and the one which follows, from Carew's well-known song • — Give me more love, or more disdain ; The torrid, or the frigid zone, Brings equal ease unto my pain : The temperate affords me none : Either extreme of love or hate Is... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 pages
...and fade, both blow and wither. SONG. Give me more love, or more disdain, The torrid, or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain ; The temperate affords me none; Either extreme, of lovo or hate, Is sweeter than a calm estate. Give me a storm ; if it be love, Like Danae in a golden... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1899 - 392 pages
...adored. MEDIOCRITY IN LOVE REJECTED. GIVE me more love, or more disdain : The torrid, or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain ; The temperate...affords me none : Either extreme, of love or hate, 5 Is sweeter than a calm estate. Give me a storm ; if it be love, Like Danae in that golden shower... | |
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