PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. So, when affections yield discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come ; They that are rich in words must needs discover, They are but poor in... Granby: A Novel ... - Page 1by Thomas Henry Lister - 1829Full view - About this book
| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...her a maid Or not, she said Forego me now, come to me soon. THE SILENT LOVER. PASSIOVS are liken'd best to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but...discover, They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pages
...proves shall find it so ; — And, shepherd, this is love I trow. The Silent Liner. PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover; Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...Litre who will, , • • .., 'No stab the soul can kill. THE SJLE3X LOVER. ' . "pASSIONS are likrnM best to floods and streams ; -*• The shallow, murmur,...discover, They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| 1883 - 854 pages
...aloud : he began to find Teddy Lessingham downright amusing. CHAPTER XIII. — WnEWELL ENCROACHES. 1 They that are rich in words must needs discover They are but poor ¡u that which makes a lover." —RALEIGH. Without any suspicion of the base revelations that were... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 432 pages
...liken'd best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb ; So when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...hour, And swept away the mansion flower. HORACE u MI'lll.l-:. THE SILENT LOVER. PASSIONS are likenM best to floods and streams ; The shallow murmur, but...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| Thomas Henry Lister - 1826 - 252 pages
...dumb ; So when affections yield discourse, it seems Passions are likened best to floods and streams ; The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover. SIR WALTER RALEIGH, The sight of a large assemblage of pictures is a fatiguing pleasure, and cannot... | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 810 pages
...knowledge pure it is her worth to know : With Circes let them dwell that think not so ! The silent Loverf. PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams :...discover, They are but poor in that which makes a lover. f This has beeu much improved from a MS. copy in a very curious coU«tion of contemporary poetry, among... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...serve to bring forth that, have a most just title to be princes over the rest.—Sir P. Sidney. XXXV. Passions are likened best to floods and streams; The....discover, They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Sir W. Haleigfi. XXXVI. Whatsoever the base man rinds evil in his own soul he can with ease lay upon... | |
| 1829 - 488 pages
...gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. SIE W. RALEIGH.— Answer to Marlowei" Come Live," $c. PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams ;...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover. SIR W. RALEIGH. Love is nature's second sun Cansing a spring of virtues where he shines And, as without... | |
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