 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pagina’s
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pagina’s
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 488 pagina’s
...what may give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all ? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 pagina’s
...expansiveness, geniality, and entire ease and unconstrainedness ; and, as the poet tells us, Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. To the genius, then, of conversation we must make our offerings in this spirit, if we would... | |
 | 1837 - 738 pagina’s
...1 1 77. ' tribuisse quod illi Plus videat, quam mortali concedere par est.' Line 75. ' Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flics.' See Drycleii's Aurungzebe. ' Love scorns all ties, but those that are his own.' Line 104. '... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 pagina’s
...poet's loose conception of the most gross and vicious form of earthly passion : — " Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." There might be something like reason in what they say, if men were, or ought to be, the mere... | |
 | 1848 - 692 pagina’s
...unfortunately omitted in the army lists. His parents were of the Godwin school, and aware that love " At sight of human ties, " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." prudently rejected the hymeneal bond, and were contented to be fettered only by a wreath of... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 458 pagina’s
...coincth, the god of love anone Betith his winges, and farevell he is gone." CHACCIR. " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." " Perdy," l said Britomart, " the choise is hard ! But what reward had he that overcame ? "... | |
 | Peter Abelard, Héloïse, François Guizot - 1839 - 410 pagina’s
...press d to marriage , have I said , (lurscon all laws but those which love has made? Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth , let honour, wait the wedded dame , August her deed , and sacred be her fame ; Before... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 440 pagina’s
...when pressed to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which Jove has made: Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.' But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit, springing... | |
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How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies... 
