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" Insatiate archer: could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain. "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 418
1812
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Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality

Edward Young - 1810 - 278 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice? , Thy shaft...peace was slain ' And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had tilled her horn. O Cynthia I why so pale ? dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbour? grieve to see thy...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 13

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...lamented, none that has read The Night Thoughts (and who has not read them ?) needs to he informed. Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon Moon had f,ll'd her horn. Yet how it is possihle that Mr. and Mrs. Temple and lady Elizaheth Young could he...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...lamented, none that has read the " Night " Thoughts" (and who has not read them ?) needs to be informed. Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice you moon had fill'd her horn. Yet how is it possible that Mr. and Mrs. Temple and Lady Elizabeth Young...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...read The Night Thoughts (and who has not read them ?) needs to be informed. Insatiate Archer ! eould not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice you Moon had Cll'd her horn. Yet how it is possible that Mr. and Mrs. Temple and lady Elizabeth Young...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...that has read The Might Thoughts, and who has not read them ? needs to be informed. Insatiate areher ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace wts slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. Yet how is it possible that Mr. and...
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The Spy, a periodical paper of literary amusement and instruction ..., Issue 1

1810 - 430 pages
...personification of disease tugging, first at the nerves, and afterwards at the bell rope was exquisite. — " Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain, " And thrice, ere thri-e, yon moon had filled her horn." Two lines containing twice the number of thrices ! could any...
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A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, with ..., Volume 3

Timothy Alden - 1814 - 304 pages
...SAVAGE, student at law, son of Samuel and Hope Savage. He departed this life, 5 October, 1811,fetatis22. Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain ! Note. — Mr. Savage was graduated at Harvard university in 1810. The two lines, on his tombstone...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,: A Romaunt: and Other Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 330 pages
...happiest part of mine. In the short space of one month I have lost her who gave me being, and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Yo u NG are no fiction : " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice...
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The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality ...

Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...he thus laments the loss of all three in an apostrophe to death : " Insatiate Archer ! could not <me suffice ? " Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace...was slain , " And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'ii her horn." * She died of * consumption, occasioned by her grief for the death of her mother....
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...happiest part of mine. In the short spaee of one month I have lost ho- who gave me being, and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of YOCNG are no fietion : " Insatiate areher! eould not one suffiee? Thy shaft flew thriee, and thriee...
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