 | 1866 - 336 pagina’s
...were the fair ; And that one hunting, which the devil design'd CYMON AND IPHIGENIA. POETA LOQUITUR. 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. If love be folly, the severe... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 284 pagina’s
...came ! He saw ! He conquered ! And you will all agree that he has a prize worth the winning, for " Old as I am — for ladies love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." Ladies and gentlemen, we shall for some time at least lose the happy smiling face... | |
 | Edward J. Wood - 1869 - 318 pagina’s
...and at the age of ninetythree years walked from Chart to London to court a sixth. He might well have said : " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem " they showed us a cottage... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pagina’s
...all in rest. SHAKSPEARE. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. SHAKSPEARE. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power .of beauty I remember yet. DRYDEN. Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 1870 - 244 pagina’s
...hand on his heart, arid quoting poetry. "I may say with Dry den," added the gallant old gentleman : '"Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.' " Lady Lundie looked unaffectedly shocked. Mr. Delamayn went a step farther. He interfered... | |
 | Charles Henry Parry - 1872 - 508 pagina’s
...addressed to his Lordship by Mr. Parry under the above signature. 2 Dryden, " Cymon and Iphigenia : " " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit." DENRY SATHURST, AFTERWARDS... | |
 | George James De Wilde - 1872 - 274 pagina’s
...famous opening lines of Cymon and Iphigenia, in which the poet speaks in his own proper person : — " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit." Cotterstock Hall was built... | |
 | Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania - 1874 - 870 pagina’s
...hypothenuse of an obtuse triangle. Surely, the Venus de Medici was never chiselled from such a model t " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." — DBYDBK. mastoid process of the one, and the plummet, as it should do, will strictly... | |
 | George James De Wilde - 1878 - 274 pagina’s
...famous opening lines of Cymon and Iphigeuia, in which the poet speaks in his own proper person : — " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit." Cotterstock Hall was built... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 pagina’s
...expression) that I longed to twine my arms about her modest waist and assure her how deeply I respected her. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. However, at this juncture, I am almost ashamed to confess it, I began to revolve in... | |
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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. 
