 | 1852 - 874 pagina’s
...chose ; and so design'd Thy simple style to suit thy lowly kind. CYMON AND IPHIGENIA POETA LOQU1TUR. pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the w I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit, If love be folly, the severe... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pagina’s
...way? Pleased with the passage, we slide swiftly on, And see the dangers which we cannot shun. Dry den. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. Beauty thou art a fair but fading flower, The tender prey of every coming hour: In... | |
 | 1855 - 824 pagina’s
...lowly; and there is the inner fortune that the unsubdued mind keeps ever working out its nobility, and bringing it forth again to the blaze of the world,...confession? It is not unwisely said — "Old as I am, for ladles1 love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet" When but a stripling, shooting up to the height... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...are usually moved by tender emotions. In his advanced years he could not exclaim with Dryden : — Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my blood, and now inspires my wit. Even in his Eoxana, or the Fortunate... | |
 | John Eagles - 1857 - 518 pagina’s
...lowly ; and there is the inner fortune that the unsubdued mind keeps ever working out its nobility, and bringing it forth again to the blaze of the world,...in beauty and happiness. Why should I be ashamed in those my old years to make a confession ? It is not unwisely said — " Old as I am, for Indies' love... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pagina’s
...yield to no man, sir, in admiration, respect, AFFECTION, — ay, sir, affection, — for the ladies. " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." Yet, sir, surely I may desire not to be diverted, sir, by the presence of ladies,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 586 pagina’s
...and (as Dryden said, when the exercise of constantly turning his coat had made him corpulent) — " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." Of course I am ineligible ; but I hope, for the sake of the youngest contributor to... | |
 | 1861 - 584 pagina’s
...and (as Dryden said, when the exercise of constantly turning his coat had made him corpulent) — " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." Of course I am ineligible ; hut I hope, for the sake of the youngest contributor to... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pagina’s
...Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster. SHAESPERE. — King Richard IL Act I. Scene 1. (The King to his Uncle.) Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty, I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. Do IT v — ('i moil and Iphigcnia,... | |
 | Daniel Hart - 1866 - 268 pagina’s
...word, " There is grace in their steps, a heaven in their eyes, in every gesture dignity and love." " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." They are extremely affable, courteous, and lady-like ; excellent musicians, singers,... | |
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OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. 
