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" I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey Rather at... "
The poetical works of Andrew Marvell [ed. by J.R. Lowell]. Repr. of the Amer. ed - Page 44
by Andrew Marvell - 1870
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run." In Brown's Pastorals, notwithstanding the weakness and prolixity of his general plan, there are repeated...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than, languish in his slow-chapp'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run." In Brown's Pastorals, notwithstanding the weakness and prolixity of his general plan, there are repeated...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour. Than languish in his slow-chap'd pow'r. arse Trinacrian shore: Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when call'd In secret, riding through the NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAWN. The wanton troopers riding by, Have shot my fawn, and...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...; And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we eannot m'I$ 2 sv - !y QF G $gD F [ ֋( } { & NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAWN. THE wanton troopers riding by, Have shot my fawn, and...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish'd in his slow chap'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Marvelf. DCCCLX. O madness, to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish'd in his slow chap'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Marvefl DCCCLX. O madness, to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 5

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...speare In better quartell than defence of right, And for a lady 'gainst a faithlesse knight. Spenser. Thus though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Marvell. I cannot but believe many a child can tell twenty, long before he has any idea of infinity...
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The Life of Andrew Marvell, the Celebrated Patriot: With Extracts and ...

John Dove - 1832 - 128 pages
...strength, and all Our sweetness up into one ball : And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. A DROP OF DEW. See, how the orient dew Shed from the bosom of the morn, Into the blowing roses, Yet...
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The Life of Andrew Marvell: The Celebrated Patriot: with Extracts and ...

John Dove - 1832 - 136 pages
...one hall : And tear our pleasures with rough strife. Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though wo cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. A DROP OF DEW. See, how the orient dew Shed from the bosom of the morn, Into the blowing roses, Yet...
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The Life of Andrew Marvell

Hartley Coleridge - 1835 - 78 pages
...strength, and all Our sweetness up into one ball : ' And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ON MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. When I beheld the poet blind, yet bold, In slender book his vast design...
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