 Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 471819Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 pages
...know A contentment to express Borders so upon excess, That they Jo nut rightly wot \Vhether it lie pain or not. Or, as men, constraint! to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow 's at the height, !.!.• '• ilisoimiiiation quite, And their hasty wrath let fall To appease... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pages
...Mermaid, Devil, Bthiop wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more, Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe^ •» Not that she is truly so, But no other...not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or as men eonstrain'd to part With what's nearest to their heart, •While their sorrow's at the height, Lose... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 316 pages
...Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe,— Not that she is truly so, But no other way...rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or, as men, constrain'd to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 320 pages
...Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more; Friendly Trait' ress, loving Foe, — Not that she is truly so, But no other way...they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. And their hasty wrath let fall, To appease their frantic gall, On the darling thing whatever, Whence... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pages
...Mermaid, Devi], Ethnp, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey. Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe,— Not that she is truly so, But no other way they know Л contentment to express, Borders so upon excess, That they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly Traifress, loving Not that she is truly so, But no other way they know...they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not, I would not have quoted to such a length, if I had known how to have broken the preceding poems into... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...Kthiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Aye, and twenty more ,. Friendly Traifress, laving .Foe,— Nut. that she is truly so, But no other way they know A contentment to express, Borders so upon excest. That they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. I would not have quoted to such a length,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...and twenty more; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe, — Not that she is truly so ; But no other way I know A contentment to express, Borders so upon excess, That they do not righly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or, as men, constrain'd to part With what's nearest to their... | |
 | 1823 - 734 pages
...express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike. no other way they know A contentment to express, Borders...they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Fare-mell to Tobacco. Sir Thomas Brown was a " bosom cronie " of his — so was Burton, and old Fuller.... | |
 | 1823 - 732 pages
...They borrow language of dislike. ...; no other way they know A contentment to exprese, Bordera «о upon excess, That they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. farewell to Tobacco. Sir Thomas Brown was a " bosom cronie " of his — so was Burton, and old Fuller.... | |
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