 | Charles Lamb - 1893 - 408 pągines
...so striks They borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice...twenty more ; Friendly Traitress, loving Foe,' Not that ehe is truly so, But no other way they know A contentment to express, Borders so upon excess, That... | |
 | 1895 - 182 pągines
...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 - 159 pągines
...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 - 570 pągines
...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
...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
...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 - 407 pągines
...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 - 407 pągines
...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
...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
...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.... | |
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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... 
