 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace :A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THE RESOLVE. ALEXANDEE BEOJIE, born 1620, dicd 1663. TELL me not of a face that's fair, Nor lip and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...choose, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. ON LELY'S PORTRAIT OP CHARLES THE FIRST. See what an humble bravery doth shine, And grief triumphant... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...chase, — The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. " Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so muck, Loved I not honour mare." This soldier's services in the cause of the monarchy cost him not only... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Engraving - 1857 - 660 pages
...honour!" There is something akin to this sentiment in that glorious stanza of one of our old poets : "Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not IOTB thee, dear, so mnch, Loved I not honour more !" Agnes Sorel is described by the chroniclers of... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...of those glorious lines of Lovelace in reply to a reproach on account of absence caused by duty : " Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, l.ov ,1 I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 366 pages
...a reproach on account of absence caused by duty i u Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, snail adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...Tynemouth castle, the grounds of which are used as a cemetery, or were when this was written. III. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, Deare, so much, Loved I not Honour more. RICHARD LOVELACE. A FAREWELL. FLOW down, cold rivulet, to... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - Maryland - 1860 - 450 pages
...chnse, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 4 Yet this inconstancy Is such As you too shall adore: I could not love thoe, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.'" • " Well done ! Well touched lute—well trolled ditty... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - Maryland - 1860 - 452 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 4 Tet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore : I could not love thoe, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more/ " " Well done ! Well touched lute— well trolled ditty... | |
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Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy... 
