 | Willis's Current notes - 1856 - 110 σελίδες
...cavalier-poet Colonel Richard Lovelace, and are really thus,— But this inconstancy is such, As you too shull adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. The whole poem is quoted by Miss Mitford, in her Reminiscences. The poems of Colonel Lovelace, who... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 σελίδες
...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...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THE RESOLVE. ALEXANDEE BEOJIE, born 1620, dicd 1663. TELL me not of a face that's fair, Nor lip and... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 σελίδες
...I am unkind, That, from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms 1 fly. *' True, a new mistress now I chase, — The first foe...too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so muck, Loved I not honour mare." This soldier's services in the cause of the monarchy cost him not only... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 σελίδες
...nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I choose, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. ON LELY'S PORTRAIT OP CHARLES THE FIRST. See what an humble bravery doth shine, And grief triumphant... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1857 - 532 σελίδες
...sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse,...too shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear ! so ranch, Lov'd I not honor more. The rest of his life was a series of the most cruel misfortunes. He... | |
 | St. George Tucker - 1857 - 368 σελίδες
...sweet, I am unkind, If 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 The sword, the horse, the shield. "Yet, this inconstancy is such As yon too shall adore ; I had not... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1857 - 660 σελίδες
...honour!" There is something akin to this sentiment in that glorious stanza of one of our old poets : "Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not IOTB thee, dear, so mnch, Loved I not honour more !" Agnes Sorel is described by the chroniclers of... | |
 | St. George Tucker - 1857 - 370 σελίδες
...now I chase, The first foe in the field, And with a stronger faith embrace The sword, the horse, the shield. "Yet, this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I had not loved thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more !" " Yes," repeated the old patriot, as... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 σελίδες
...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...too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, l.ov ,1 I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 σελίδες
...of those glorious lines of Lovelace in reply to a reproach on account of absence caused by duty : " Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only... | |
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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 faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield.... 
