 tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. " So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! "...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3721839Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Prior - 1860 - 338 pages
...way ; 1 They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Cloe, this jpast-oral^war ; And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : For thou...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. PALLAS AND YENUS. AN EPIGRAM. THE Trojan swain had judg'd the great dispute, And beauty's power obtain'... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior ? Love and pleasure find singers in all days.... | |
 | William Lennie - 1864 - 192 pages
...information. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree ; For them art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet subliracr than me. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1866 - 350 pages
...earth 'tis his fancy to run ; At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. 20 So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. PALLAS AND VENUS. AN EPIGRAM. Trojan swain had judg'd the great dispute, And beauty's power obtain'd... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 432 pages
...beauties I saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. Matthew Prior. PHYLUDA, that loved to dream In the grove, or by the stream ; Sigh'd on velvet pillow.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. *' If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior? Love and pleasure find singers in all days.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior? Love and pleasure find singers in all days.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. " If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior? Love and pleasure find singers in all days.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me.'' If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior? Love and pleasure find singers in all days.... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...beauties I saw on my way, They were but. my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia...brighter than her. As he was a poet sublimer than me. BALLAD. [SF.VF.NTF.ENTH CENTURY.] LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAV. OVER the mountains, And under the waves,... | |
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