 Heav'n seem'd to frame And measure out this only dame. Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care ! Over whose heads those arrows fly Of sad distrust and jealousy ; Secured in as high extreme, As if the world held none but them.  The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose - Seite 49von Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 236 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 Seiten
...buds persuades To wax more soft, her youth invades? THE MARRIAGE OF THE DWARFS. Design or chance makes others wive, But nature did this match contrive ; Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom Heaven seemed to frame And measure out this only dame. Thrice... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1897 - 432 Seiten
...Waller wrote a poem " On the Marriage of the Dwarfs," which commences thus : " Design or chance makes others wive, But nature did this match contrive ; Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom Heaven seemed to frame And measure out this little dame."... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1897 - 442 Seiten
...Waller wrote a poem " On the Marriage of the Dwarfs," which commences thus : " Design or chance makes others wive, But nature did this match contrive ; Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom Heaven seemed to frame And measure out this little dame."... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 314 Seiten
...No. 320, PAGE 276. Mr. Waller. 'Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs,' 11. 1-6:— Design, or chance, makes others wive ; But Nature did this match contrive ; Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom Heaven seemed to frame, And measure out, this only dame.... | |
 | 1905 - 858 Seiten
...witty, and the poem seems to be filled with a faint, almost tender, smile:— Design, or chance, makes others wive: But Nature did this match contrive; Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom Heaven seemed to frame, And measure out, this only dame.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 Seiten
...buds persuades To wax more soft, her youth invades? THE MARRIAGE OF THE DWARFS. Design or chance makes others wive, But nature did this match contrive ; Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom Heaven seemed to frame. And measure out this only dame.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1864 - 866 Seiten
...; while Waller, the court-poet, celebrated the nuptials in one of his prettiest poems. ' Design or chance make others wive, But nature did this match contrive ; Eve might as well have Adam (led, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom Heaven seemed to frame And measure out this little... | |
 | Harry Kemp - 1927 - 482 Seiten
...full hand, that does bring All that was promised by the spring. OF THE MARRIAGE OF DWARFS Design, or chance, make others wive; But nature did this match contrive: Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom heaven seemed to frame And measure out, this only dame.... | |
 | Morris Bishop - 1928 - 282 Seiten
...tall. Edmund Waller, court poet, wrote for them an epithalamium of a suitable daintiness: Design, or chance, make others wive; But Nature did this match contrive: Eve might as well have Adam fled As she deny'd her little bed To him, for whom Heav'n seem'd to frame And measure out this only dame. To... | |
 | Betty M. Adelson - 2005 - 372 Seiten
...of seventeenth-century court dwarf painter Richard Gibson and his bride, Anne Shepherd: Design, or chance, make others wive, But Nature did this match contrive; Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom heaven seemed to frame And measure out this only dame. In... | |
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