 | 1836 - 436 σελίδες
...modern verse. Another specimen, and let it be from Lovelace— like Carew, a courtier and cavalier — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first fu* in the field ; And with a stronger... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 σελίδες
...tender, — as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 382 σελίδες
...joining the army, he wrote that beautiful song to his mistress, which has been so often quoted, — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new. mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 σελίδες
...tender, — as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger... | |
 | 1837 - 574 σελίδες
...of martial spirit about the following that cannot be well surpassed. To LuCASTA. Going to the wars. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True; a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - 1839 - 880 σελίδες
...gallants there, and I confess a favour for it because it hath a stirring relish. It runs thus : ' Tell rue not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. 1 True, a new mistress, now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a... | |
 | Llewelyn (fict.name.) - 1846 - 914 σελίδες
...r London: Printed by STRWABT and Muuuir, Old Bailey. LLEWELYVS HEIK. CHAPTER I. Tell me not, love, I am unkind;— That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger... | |
 | 1847 - 334 σελίδες
...joining the army, he wrote that beautiful song to his mistress, which has been so often quoted, — ' Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. ' True, a new mistress now I chase, The flrst foe in the field ; And with a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 σελίδες
...Like the sun's in early ray ; But shake your head, and scatter day I r To Luauta, on going to the Wan. 4 chatte breast and quiet mind, , To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 σελίδες
...Like the sun's in early ray ; But shake your head, and scatter day I To Lufasta, on going to the Wan. ike bonfires on you by the tapers. Something might here be spared, with safety of Your birt To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger... | |
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TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, — That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this... 
