 | Half hours - 1856 - Počet stránok 676
...perplexed lovers use At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies...Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witeh, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - Počet stránok 628
...despair, To paint forth their fairest fair ; Or in part but to express That exceeding comelmess, Winch their fancies doth so strike They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of ' dearest rniso,' Jewel, honey, sweetheart, bliss, And those forms of old admirmg, Call her cockatrice and siren,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1858 - Počet stránok 142
...perplexed lovers use, At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies...Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly Traitoress, loving Foe, — Not that she is truly so, But no other way they know A contentment to express,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1858 - Počet stránok 148
...perplexed lovers use, At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies...forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice and Siren, 4 Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey,... | |
 | 1858 - Počet stránok 456
...terms truly to describe, and instead of calling their sweethearts by names of formal admiration, " Call her cockatrice and siren, Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witch, hyena, mermaid, devil ;" because they know no other way to express a joy and a love so acute that "They do not rightly wot... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - Počet stránok 684
...fairest fair; Or in part hut to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so itrike, They borrow language of dislike; And, instead of '...admiring, Call her cockatrice and siren, Basilisk, and aU that's evil. Witch, hyena, mermaid, devil, Ethiop, wench, and blackamoor, Monkey, npe, and twenty... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - Počet stránok 968
...perplext lovers use At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to 71 that 's evil, Witch, hyena, mermaid, devil, Ethiop, wench, and blackamoor, Monkey, ape, and twenty... | |
 | 1872 - Počet stránok 900
...sweetheart, bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her cockatrice and siren, Basilisk, and all that 's t trait'resß, loving foe, — Not that she is truly so, But no other way they know, A contentment to... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - Počet stránok 782
...perplex'd lovers use At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to sit ; while, on their boughs, The nested songsters...breaks The silence, wafted o'er the sleeping lake, Ami those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that 's evil, Witch,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - Počet stránok 564
...perplex'd lovers use At a need, when in despair, To paint forth their fairest fair ; Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness, Which their fancies...and twenty more, Friendly traitress, loving foe. Not thai she is truly so, But no other way they know A contentment to express Borders so upon excess, That... | |
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Twas but in a sort I blamed thee: None e'er prosper'd who defamed thee; Irony all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplex'd lovers use, At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which... 
