 | 1895 - 220 pàgines
...so strike, They borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that 's evil, Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamore, Monkey, Ape, and twenty... | |
 | Blanche McManus - 1898 - 174 pàgines
...so strike They borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice...excess, That they do not rightly wot Whether it be from pain or not. Or, as men, constrained to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pàgines
...so strike, They borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witch, Hyoena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more; Friendly Traitress,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 408 pàgines
...so strike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice...rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or as men, constrained to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination... | |
 | 1901 - 638 pàgines
...so strike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witch, Hvpna, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop. Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more; Friendly Trait'ress,... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1902 - 516 pàgines
...so strike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice...excess, That they do not rightly wot Whether it be from pain or not. Or, as men constrain'd to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1902 - 508 pàgines
...so strike, They borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice...excess, That they do not rightly wot Whether it be from pain or not. Or, as men constraint to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 542 pàgines
...That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike. ' ' No other way they know A contentment to express, Borders...they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. "Farewell to Tobacco." Sir Thomas Brown was a " bosom cronie" of his — so was Burton, and old Fuller.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 536 pàgines
...That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike. ' ' No other way they know A contentment to express, Borders...they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. " Farewell to Tobacco." Sir Thomas Brown was a " bosom cronie" of his — so was Burton, and old Fuller.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 226 pàgines
...so strike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring. Call her Cockatrice...that she is truly so, But no other way they know A contentmenrto express, Borders so upon excess, That they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not.... | |
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Such as perplexed lovers use At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of Dearest Miss... 
