 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...I tee Amintas' wretched fate, To whom sweet poets verse hath given endless date. § 22. Affections. How great a toil to stem the raging flood, When beauty stirs the mass of youthful blood I When the swoln veins with circling torrents rise, __j hasty .__0_. _, And vengeful pride hurries... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - Ellora (India) - 1825 - 676 pages
...young and gay ; but it is well known we cannot expect " old heads on young shoulders." Spenser sings, " How great a toil to stem the raging flood, When beauty stirs the mass of youthful blood !" Round the ankles of the girls are placed rows of very small silver bells; these they move in cadence... | |
 | Gonorrhea - 1825 - 202 pages
...maturity — " Tis hard to guide the Helm when Passion blows the gale." As Spenser sings, " How great the toil to stem the raging flood, When Beauty stirs the mass of human blood." There is no disease, in which the well-known maxim in Physic, " principiis obsta," can... | |
 | Valentín Llanos Gutierrez - 1826 - 436 pages
...expression, are considered among these honest folks as unequivocal proofs of a hearty welcome. CHAPTER III. How great a toil to stem the raging flood, When beauty...veins with circling torrents rise, And softer passions apeak through wishing eyes! The voice of reason's drown'd: in vain it speaks, When hasty anger dyes... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - Europe - 1826 - 348 pages
...day, Which now shews all the beauty of the sun, And, by and by, a cloud takes all away ! SH&KSPEARE. How great a toil to stem the raging flood, When beauty stirs the mass of youthful blood, When the swoll'n veins with circling torrents rise, And softer passions speak through wishing eyes ! The voice... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - Europe - 1826 - 338 pages
...day, Which now shews all the beauty of the sun, And, by and by, a cloud takes all away ! SHAKSPEABE. How great a toil to stem the raging flood, "When beauty stirs the mass of youthful blood, When the swoll'n veins with circling torrents rise, And softer passions speak through wishing eyes ! The voice... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 pages
...l''i''ii<.'' *'•Jt /"'l" ' • I. 'I .i J-'jil'/'j- " i.- ' i*' '''' ^''!ll " • I. 'I .i J-'jil'/'j- " t.1 CHAPTER V. How great a toil to stem the raging flood, When beauty stirs the mass of youthful blood I When the swoln veins with circling torrents rise, And softer passions speak through wishing eyes.... | |
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How great a toil to stem the raging flood, When beauty stirs the mass of youthful blood... 