 | 1822 - 880 Seiten
...power of its delineation would have consisted in its probability. If the deity of love, - at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies," why, human ties are very much inclined to return the compliment at sight of his wings. I have no idea... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight rt ; But when his own great work is but begun, What reason wea I .••! wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...marriage, have I said. Curse on all laws but those whieh 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 saered be her fame ; Before true... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 Seiten
...marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws hut 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 sacred'be her fame ; Before true... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...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 sacred be her fame ; Before true... | |
 | Hamel (fict.name.) - 1827 - 678 Seiten
...by, as the union of the most devout and virtuous people of Europe. ' " Love, light as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Here are no ties but those of love, mutual regard, and a conscientious feeling of the propriety, if... | |
 | Christian view - 1829 - 112 Seiten
...say they, " is so ecstatic a feeling, that it, like the poet's romantic " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Religion can only be genuine in a conventicle, but the moment she comes into a cathedral,she is transformed... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1830 - 150 Seiten
...— since she waived all vulgar prejudices, and thought like him, that Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. There was a momentary pause after this rhapsody, during which Lenoras expressive eyes spoke daggers,... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1831 - 482 Seiten
...lords and gentlemen had, to a man, adopted the oracle of the poet — " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies!" They all professed to adore Lady Sara; some were caught by her beauty, others by her eclat, but none... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1834 - 340 Seiten
...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." And again— " Should at my feet, the world's great master fall, " Himself, his Throne, his world,... | |
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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... 
