 | William Beloe - 1812 - 518 pages
...may for ever tarry. UPON PASSIONATE LOVE. No man loves fiery passion can approve, As yeelding either pleasure or promotion, I like a mild and lukewarm zeal in love, Although I do jiot like it in devotion. Besides, man need not love unless he please, No destiny can force mans disposition,... | |
 | John Fry - 1814 - 122 pages
...The frothy part of a man : Oh no! she hates a Puritan. Then venture to embrace ; Tis but one squeak or two : I'm confident no woman lives, But sometimes...she will do : The fault lies not in her, but you. The merry Bells of Oxford. [From the same volume.] OH the merry Christ-Church Bells ! One, two, three,... | |
 | Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1827 - 426 pages
...a man were born to faft and pray. No, that is not the humour I approve, As either yielding pleafure or promotion : I like a mild and lukewarm zeal in love, Although I do not like it in devotion ; For it has no coherence with my creed, To think that lovers die as they pretend ; If all that fay,... | |
 | Sir Robert Ayton - 1844 - 220 pages
...lifetime a perpetual Lent, As if a man were born to fast and pray. ill. No ! that is not the humour I approve, As either yielding pleasure or promotion ; I like a mild and lukewarm zeal in love, Altho' I do not like it in devotion. Iv. For it hath no coherence with my creed, To think that lovers... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...their lifetime a perpetual Lent, As if a man were born to fast and pray. No ! that is not the humour I approve, As either yielding pleasure or promotion...zeal in love, Although I do not like it in devotion. For it hath no coherence with my creed, To think that lovers die as they pretend ; If all that say... | |
 | Percy Society - 1851 - 454 pages
...think a woman can Be satisfied with complements, The frothy part of a man ; Oh no, she hates a Puritan. Then venture to embrace, 'Tis but one or two, I'm...yielding pleasure or promotion ; I like a mild and hike-warm zeal in love, Although I do not like it in devotion. Besides, man need not love unless he... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 pages
...their life-time a perpetual Lent, As if a man were born to fast and pray. No, that is not the humour I approve, As either yielding pleasure, or promotion...zeal in love, Although I do not like it in devotion : For it has no coherence with my creed, To think that lovers die, as they pretend : If all that say... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 pages
...their life-time a perpetual Lent, As if a man were born to fast and pray. No, that is not the humour I approve, As either yielding pleasure, or promotion...zeal in love, Although I do not like it in devotion : For it has no coherence with my creed, To think that lovers die, as they pretend : If all that say... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 526 pages
...their lifetime a perpetual Lent, As if a man were born to fast and pray. No ! that is not the humour I approve, As either yielding pleasure or promotion...zeal in love, Although I do not like it in devotion. For it hath no coherence with my creed, To think that lovers die as they pretend ; If all that say... | |
 | William Hugh Logan - 1872 - 354 pages
...think a woman can Be satisfied with compliments. The frothy part of a man ; Oh no, she hates a Puritan. Then venture to embrace, 'Tis but one or two, I'm...she will do : The fault lies not in her, but you. PROLOGUE. ' Tis worth my smiles to think what enforc'd ways And shifts, each poet hath to help his... | |
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But not that passion which with fools' consent Above the reason bears imperious sway, Making their lifetime a perpetual lent, As if a man were born to fast and pray. No, that is not the humour I approve, As either yielding pleasure or promotion : I like... 
