 GOING TO THE WARS 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....  Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People - Page 15by Mary Russell Mitford - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...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...too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 pages
...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...too shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear ! so much, Lov'd I not honour more. The rest of his life was a series of the most cruel misfortunes. He... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...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...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 338 pages
...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...this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore; SUCKLING. DAVENANT. BROWNE. DONNE. 41 I could not love thee, dear, so muchj Lov'd I not honour more.... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...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...such As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dearest, much Lov'd I not honour more. LOVELACK. MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger,... | |
 | English poetry - 1839 - 374 pages
...flie. True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith imhrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is...such. As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. 10 XIL VALENTINE AND URSINE. The old story-hook of Valentine... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - 1839 - 880 pages
...nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. 1 True, a new mistress, now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a hors*, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore : I could not lore thee, dear,... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Buccaneers - 1840 - 474 pages
...too, had you heard him, would have listened a second tune : — ' True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field, And with a stronger faith...this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore — 1 could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more !' But I forget, the theme is a forbidden... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...nunnerie Of thy chaste heart and quiet mind, To war and arms I flie. Another mistress hence I chace, The first foe in the field, And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. LOVELACE. TO AN EDITOR. So rude and senseless are thy lays, The weary audience vows, Tis not the Arcadian... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, yrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when be hid himself among women, though puzzling much, - Loy'd I not honour more. To AlAea,from Prwon. When 1оте with unconfined wings Hovers within... | |
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