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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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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...marriage, to whom he was strongly attached, were suceessively removed from him by death. " loMtlatc archer ! could not one suffice ! Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my jM-aee was slain ! " The victim of many sorrows and disappointments, Dr. Young, after publishing in...
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Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire: On ..., Volume 1

Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1838 - 410 pages
...that he followed to the grave. Well might he say of death, as did the melancholy poet of the night, Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ! It is the custom in this town, for young women clothed in white, with a handkerchief drawn through...
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The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual

1839 - 374 pages
...attachments lessen the sorrows of the young. But for those aged parents, well might they exclaim ; " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice — and thrice my peace was slain !" They had not only the grief of having lost three most affectionate and beloved children, but all...
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Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young - 1839 - 300 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreck'd on me? Insatiate archer! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had (ill'd her horn. O Cynthia! why so pale? dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbour? grieve to see thy...
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The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Volume 1

Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 346 pages
...magistrate and merchant at Sydney). It is Young, I believe, who thus records such affliction :— " Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? " Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain." were compatible with his engagement to play Tamo-Shanter the following evening? The comedian did swallow...
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The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Volume 1

Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 342 pages
...magistrate and merchant at Sydney). It is Young, 1 believe, who thus records such affliction : — " Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? " Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain." L5 were compatible with his engagement to play Tatno-Shanter the following evening? The comedian did...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...lamented, none that has read "The Night Thoughts" (and who has not read them ?) needs to be informed. ten for another's rhymes, Hia own deserve as great applause somel mes. His reputation in «lain i And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. Yet how is it possible that Mr. and Mrs....
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 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...shaft flew thrice. and thrice my peace was slain. A H. i thrice ere thrice yon moon had flH'd her horn." I should have ventured a verse to the memory...
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The Gospel herald; or, Poor Christian's magazine, Volumes 5-6

1874 - 590 pages
...mourning and woe." Her feelings, perhaps, might have found expression in the apostrophe of Young : — " Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain." For now by this last blow, her earthly hope seemed to have perished among the slain ! Yet this was...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...part of mine. In the short space of one month, I have lost her who gave me being, and most of thi-e who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction : Had the sword laid thee with the mighty low, Pride might forbid e'en Friendship to complain : But...
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