 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 his light wings, and in a moment flies...  Hamel, the Obeah man - Page 212by Hamel (fict.name.) - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 460 pages
...The widow's notions of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Frankeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie : Whan maistrie cometh,... | |
 | Henry Ware - 1835 - 160 pages
...the paralyzing effect of legal shackles, though there is no doubt but, in common cases, ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.'" " Have you said all you wish to say 1 " said Anna. " Not quite," replied he, with a smile that once... | |
 | Edward Strutt Abdy - 1835 - 434 pages
...poverty, drives Love out of the window ; and that the little god, at the sight of human blood, as "at the sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." The weather was at this time so cold, that fires were to be found in all the houses. The winter had... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...when press'd to marriage, have I said ; Curse on all laws hut those which love has made! Love, free er Pope Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dome, August her deed, and sacred he her fame ; Before true... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...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 his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacked be her fame ; Before true... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 488 pages
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all ? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 pages
...the poet's loose conception of the most gross and vicious form of earthly passion : — " Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." There might be something like reason in what they say, if men were, or ought to be, the mere toys of... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 pages
...expansiveness, geniality, and entire ease and unconstrainedness ; and, as the poet tells us, Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. To the genius, then, of conversation we must make our offerings in this spirit, if we would find acceptance... | |
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