 | 1794 - 918 頁
...lofe for Ihee. HOW oft, when prcfb'd to marriage, have I faid, Curfe on all hws but thofe which luve has made : Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment íies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, Auçuft her d«d, and facred be her fjn;e ; B-.iurctrne... | |
 | Mrs. Bennett (Agnes Maria) - 1796 - 280 頁
...Ihall neither of us think it ne" ceflary to have recourfe to the dull ."beaten road of matrimony." " Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, •'*' Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Mr. Edwin, in the excefs of his rapturous ideas, ran on for fome time in this ftrain, and might have,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 頁
...delicate operation of the mind, among the very nobleft efforts of Englifh poetry. Ver. 75. Love, free ES air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So in Dry-den's Aureng-Zebe : 'Tis true, of marriage bands I'm weary grown, Love [corns all ties but... | |
 | Augusta Fitzherbert (fict.name.) - 1796 - 250 頁
..." love?" That her Ladymip will much longer engrofs my roving heart, is a certain confequence, for " Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, " Spreads his light wing?, and in a moment " flies." Let Let the poor devil, his Grace, tie the gordian knot, I will no... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 428 頁
...remote the joys of faints I fee ; Nor envy them that heav'n I lofe for thee. How oft, when prefs'd to marriage, have I faid, Curfe on all laws but thofe...made ? Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, 75 Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. NOTES. Arduzon, near Nogent, upon the Seine. A lady,... | |
 | 1799 - 912 頁
...plea) иге of loving; but as we were well acquainted how much the mind abhors rcftraint, and that " Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment Hies," we difdained to think of any other union than that of nature and fen« jiment, when " All is... | |
 | 1799 - 622 頁
...confidered in a very different point of view. The modern philofophift, like the Cupid of the poet, " at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." By his liberal mind, female incontinence, we know, is regarded as an effort of nature to liberate herfelf... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1800 - 414 頁
...Jnfeparable companions as good-humour and port wine could make us, till love, who, as the poet fings, " At fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies," threatened in an evil hour to fet us at variance. Alike in (Indies, and alike in pleafures, the fame... | |
 | 1800 - 458 頁
...infeparable companions as good-humour and port wine could make us, till Love, who, as the poet fings, • ' At fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a mo. ment flies, threatened in an evil hour to fèt us at variance. Alike in ftudies, and alike in pleafures,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 554 頁
...anone " Betith his wingos, and farewell he is gone." Hence Pope in his Epijtle of Eloifa to Abelard : " Love, free as air, at fight of human ties " Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Our poet has the fame thought in FQ iv. i. 46. " For leva XXVI. . . . Then fpake one of thofe fix ;... | |
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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. 
