 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 Seiten
...geniality, and entire ease and unconstrainedness ; and, as the poet tells us, Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. To the genius, then, of conversation we must make our offerings in this spirit, if we would find acceptance... | |
 | 1848 - 692 Seiten
...unfortunately omitted in the army lists. His parents were of the Godwin school, and aware that love " At sight of human ties, " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." prudently rejected the hymeneal bond, and were contented to be fettered only by a wreath of roses.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 Seiten
...conception of the most gross and vicious form of earthly passion : — " Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." There might be something like reason in what they say, if men were, or ought to be, the mere toys of... | |
 | Peter Abelard, Héloïse, François Guizot - 1839 - 410 Seiten
...marriage , have I said , (lurscon 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 458 Seiten
...god of love anone Betith his winges, and farevell he is gone." CHACCIR. " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." " Perdy," l said Britomart, " the choise is hard ! But what reward had he that overcame ? " " He should... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Rowan - 1840 - 510 Seiten
...another heroine : — " Curse on all tics but those which love has made I Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." More happy had it been for her, had she acted on a more sacred principle, and said — Curse on all... | |
 | Female freemasons - 1840 - 822 Seiten
...what you call religion ; andas for marriage, what does Pope say ?— ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.''' " Maria," said Isabel, " if these are really your ideas, I pity you; for I see you adore young Medwin,... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 452 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.' But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit, springing... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1841 - 482 Seiten
...iii. c. 1. lines 553 to 560. Pope has made use of Chaucer more literally. "Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Eloiie to Abelard. Warburton, in a note on these lines, alludes to this " imitation" of Chaucer, and... | |
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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... 
