| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...only with thine eye's, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not ask for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise,...Doth ask a drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, 1 would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...taken, to be seen, — These have crimes accounted been. SONG. To Celia. [From the same.] DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine...Doth ask a drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee Fate a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - English ballads and songs - 1803 - 228 pages
...tho' his bodyvs under hatches, His soul is gone aloft.' DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THFNE E^ES. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll look not for wine : The thirst that ftom my soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine ; But might I of... | |
| Select collection - 1806 - 322 pages
...DRINK TO ME, ETC. ANONYMOUS. GOtn-DING, LONDON.— HARRINGTON; Sung at the Public Concerts. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll look not for wine. The thirst that from my soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine ; But might I of... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 424 pages
...translation, and compare it with the original, stanza by stanza— I. Drink to me only with thine eye*, And I will pledge with mine, Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. PHILOSTRATUS, Letter XXIV. ' E(«< Ss (AOnoir OTfom»£ "rats o/x/xxrm—Drink to 1J18 with thine eyes... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And '11 not ask for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise,...Doth ask a drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would, not change for thine. ! ^ ' ' ' . I sent thee late a rosy wreath,. Not so much honouring... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...taken, to be seen, — These have crimes accounted been. SONG. . To Celia. [From the same.] DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine...Doth ask a drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving... | |
| Richard Clark - Madrigals, English - 1814 - 530 pages
...Voices. T. LlHLEY. to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine : Or leave a kiss within the cup, And I'll not look for wine: The thirst that...Doth ask a drink divine But might I of Jove's nectar sip, . I would not change for thine. I sent thee, late, a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee,... | |
| John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 446 pages
...Philostratus, has been imitated by Ben Jonson, in his poem entitled the Forest : — " Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine...kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine." thing more frigid than this romance, nothing meaner, nothing more unpleasant and disgusting. In the... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...Move it, as their humblest suit, In thy justice to molest None but them, and leave the rest. IX. SONG. To CELIA.' Drink to me, only with thine eyes, And...a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. ' No part of Jonson has been so frequently quoted as this song, which, pleasing as it is, is not superior... | |
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