| 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... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1880 - 374 pagina’s
...to meet him at — Fontainbleau." The Doctor gave a whistle. " Sits the wind in that quarter, eh ? ' Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.' But don't let him burn his fingers with that little French witch ; she's not a craft... | |
| Helen Mathers - 1881 - 400 pagina’s
...appetite to the dignity of passion and sentiment ; warms the philosopher's imagination. Dryden says : — 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. * Walker's Analysis of Beauty,... | |
| 1882 - 1434 pagina’s
...A delusion, a mockery, and a snare. r. LORD DESMAN — O'Connell. '1 lie Queen. Clark and flnnelly. 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. s. 1 'I'.YI II.N — Oymon... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagina’s
...hunting, which the Devil designed For one fair female, lost him half the kind. Theodore and Bonoria. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 1. When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind.... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pagina’s
...hour Is prized beyond the sculptured -flower. 334 Win. Gullen Bryant : ticene on the Banks of Hudson. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. 335 Dryden : Gym. and Iph. Line 1. All things of beauty are not theirs alone Who hold... | |
| Oswald John F. Crawfurd - 1885 - 276 pagina’s
...and how hard for any man or woman to resist her." He smiled, repeating Dryden's couplet to himself: " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." She was a beautiful woman indeed; tall, slight, slim, straight as an arrow, yet lithe... | |
| Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe - 1888 - 684 pagina’s
...amid the numerous wrinkles round his mouth, that sufficiently indicate the hero of Cherrytrees, — " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." David must have resembled Medoro in Ariosto. As to his last Angelica (NB — Miss... | |
| Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1911 - 878 pagina’s
...(hat is asked todo this little thing in memory of him — to buy a penny stamp. *.«. TkeP ower eauty. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. — DRYDEN. By SETON VALENTINE. BEAUTIFUL woman, a beautiful rose, and a beautiful... | |
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