 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, in words discover That they are poor in...  The Star - Page 152Full view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...the soul cau kill. THE SILENT LOVER. Passions are likened best to floods and streams : The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb ; So, when affections...shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet empress of my heart,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...dumb; So when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come ; 182 183 oth Coates Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...sentiment and strength of imagination. Thus: 'Passions arc likened best to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affections...shallow whence they come. They that are rich In words, in words discover That they are poor In that which makes a lover.' Or his reply to Marlowe's Passionate... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...sentiment and strength of imagination. Thus: 'Passions arc likened best to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affections...bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that arc rich in words, in words discover That Ihey are poor in that which makes a lover.' Or his reply... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...recalls the quatrain of Raleigh — " Passions are likened best to floods and streams ; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb : So when affections...seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come." Peter Folger next merits mention, as the maternal grandfather of Franklin, and a stout advocate of... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...above reason. — SIR PHILIP SIDKEY. Passions are likened best to floods and streams ; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb ; So, when affections...seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. SHAKSPEARE. The use of poesy is... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...recalls the quatrain of Ealeigh — " Passions are likened best to floods and streams ; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb : So when affections...seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come." Peter Folger next merits mention, as the maternal grandfather of Franklin, and a stout advocate of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...SILENT LOVER. Passions are likened best to floods and streams : The shallow murmur, but tho deep aro gent сошг. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affeelions yield discourse, H seems The bottom Is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.' Or his reply to Marlowe's Passionate... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...70 10 And this : — THE SILENT LOVER. Passions are likened best to floods and streams : The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb ; So. when affections yield discourse, it seem« The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That... | |
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