 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...hnben. On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfie our eyes More by your number, than your light, You common people of the skies ; What arc you when the sun shall rise? You curious chauntcrs of the wood, That warhle forth dame Nature's... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1852 - 782 pages
...the eye of day." The word "untaught" belongs to Cowley, as I before remarked in my first letter : " You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays." Sir H. Wotton On the Queen of Bohemia. " While, whisp'ring pleasure as they fly," &c. Wakefield quotes... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...emperor of Germany, because it "came from an enemy to his Eoyal 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 ? Yoj> curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...You meaner beauties of the night, Thiit poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light I You common people of the skies ! What are you, when the sun shall rise t You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1856 - 580 pages
...Henry Wotton so. sweetly sung, in the lyric commencing, — " You meaner beauties of the night, Which poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than...common people of the skies, What are you when the sun doth rise ? " and who extracted no mean poetry from that rude but eloquent old minstrel Zacharie Boyd,... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 386 pages
...soft summerair into the heart. I. " You meaner beauties of the night That poorly satislic our cyes, More by your number than your light,-- You common...the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise'/ II. You fin inn . ' b;unit'T of the wood That warble forth Dame Nature's layes, Thinking your passions... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1856 - 588 pages
...Henry Wotton so sweetly sung, in the lyric commencing, — " You meaner beauties of the night, Which poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies, What arc you when the sun doth rise ? " and who extracted no mean poetry from that rude but eloquent old... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. To his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light ! DR. JOHN DONNE. 1573-1631. FUNERAL ELEGIES ON THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL. The Second Anniversary. Line... | |
 | Mary Anne Everett Green - Princesses - 1857 - 656 pages
...received by their party ; gave them the particulars of the defeat and death of Colonel Dampierre, " 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 passions... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 pages
...appearance here of his well known verses " to the most illustrious Princesse, the Ladie Elizabeth." " 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... | |
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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... 
