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" A MIGHTY pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss ; But, of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. "
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1857
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

1852 - 874 pages
...time short pleasures now to take Of little life the best to make, And manage wisely the last stake phitritc, * but love in vain. Virtue now, nor noble blood. Nor wit, by love is understood Gold alone does passion...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...there ! for why Should every creature drink but I ? Why, men of morals, tell me why ? From Anacreon. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss ; But of all pain the greatest pain, It is to love, and love in vain. Virtue now nor noble blood, Nor wit by love...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...three volumes: read also, Johnson'* Lite of Cowley in his " Lives of the British Poet*." P J GOLD. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to mis?, But, of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but Love in vain. Virtue now nor noble blood,...
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1850 - 580 pages
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1854 - 816 pages
...February the 10th, 1688-9,' nnder which the following verses, blotted out, but can be read: ' Surely a pain to love it is and tis a pain that pain to mis but of all pains the greatest pain it is to love and love in vain,' under which, unblotted, ' Discreet...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...thinks none sees it, 'eause itself is blind. Cotetsj. Like Ixion, A mighty pain to love it is, And Ч is a pain that pain to miss ; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. Comisy. In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love eonsists not...
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Married women, by the author of 'Broomhill'.

Married women - 1855 - 300 pages
...self, what man, who has thus loved, is there, who has not felt the same disquietude ? CHAPTER VII. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that love to miss ; But of all pain the greatest pain It is to love, and love in vain. COWLEI. After you...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 pages
...Lot, Love 's of a strangely ipen simple kind, And thinks none sees it, 'eause itself is blinu. LOVE. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; Hut of all pains, the greate-t pain It ia to love, but love in vain. Cowley. In loving thou dost well,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...numbers the enthusiasm of tho greater ode, and the gaycty of the less; 220 COWLBT. [CHARLES II. GOLD. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to mi^s, But, of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but Love in vain. Virtue now nor noble blood,...
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1857 - 566 pages
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