 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...the following tender and exquisite stanzas will prove : On his Mistress, the QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number, then your light, You common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon doth rise ? You curious... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...black as ebony. BIRON. Is ebony like her ? O wood divine 7 1 A wife of such wood were felicity. " Yon meaner beauties of the night, " That poorly satisfy...the skies, " What are you when the sun shall rise ? " JOHNSON. " — — Micat inter omnes " Julium sidus, velut inter ignes " Luna minores." Hor. MALONE.... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...gallant and spiiitcd act of self-denial : — Ore his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia. .' • '' You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than yow light ! You common people of the skies ! • What are you when the sun shall rise ? You curious... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...also ventured to make public the following glowing lines "On his mistress the queen of Bohemia:" " You meaner beauties of the night That poorly satisfy our...of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise ? " You curious chanters of the wood That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...this is a stanza of sir Henry Wottou, of which the poetics' reader will forgive the insertion : " You meaner beauties of the night, . *' That poorly satisfy...the skies, " What are you when the sun shall rise ?" JOHNSON. [7] In heraldry, a crest is a device placed above a coat of arms. Shakespeare therefore... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 pages
...likeness true, And see! Trefusis stands in view. ON HIS MISTRESS THEO. SWBT. THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...of the skies! What are you when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of the wood, Thinking your voices understood That warble forth dame Nature's... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 444 pages
...likeness true, And see ! Trefusis stands in view. THEO. 8W1TT. ON HIS MISTRESS THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...of the skies ! What are you when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood... | |
 | 1824 - 80 pages
...Raleigh. .• YOU MEANER BEAUTIES. You meaner beauties of the night, f Which poorlye satis fie our eies More by your number than your light ; You common people...of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise ? Ye violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the yeare,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 564 pages
...Aire of a Canzo, composed in honour of the most illustrious Princesse, the Ladie Elizabeth, Sfc. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...common people of the skies ; What are you when the Moon shall rise} Yflu Violets, which first appear, By those your purple mantles known, Much like proud... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - Gift books - 1830 - 454 pages
...l.ongmtn,H.ee3.0rme Hr( THE DISCOVERY. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy one's eyes, More by your number than your light ; You common...the skies ! What are you, when the sun shall rise? JOHNSON. SUCH was William Heathcote's impassioned soliloquy, as, after a long ramble in the beautiful... | |
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You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise... 
