 True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link,...  Dictionary of Idiomatic Phrases... - Page 298by J. M. Dixon - 1891 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 334 pages
...Disgrace, and loss of fame. But earthy spirit could not tell The heart of them that loved so well; True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not Fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 350 pages
...Whose wishes, soon as granted, fl ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, . • * The silver link,...the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to miml, In body and in soul can bind. — . • Now leave we Margaret and her Knight, To tell you of... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...heaven is love. P. 54. While upon this subject, we cannot resist transcribing these beautiful lines. — True love's the gift which God has "given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not Fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ¡ It Hveih not in fierre desire, In dead... | |
 | Liber - Anecdotes - 1809 - 372 pages
...the trouble of composing a long treatise on the beautiful. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, v. 1. TRUE love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not Phantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, Wkh dead... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...men below, and saints above ; >r love is heaven, and heaven is love. IV. TRUE LOVE. FROM THE SAME. TRUE Love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not Fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes^ soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead... | |
 | Edward Lysaght - Irish poetry - 1811 - 164 pages
...been best pourtrayed in the following beautiful passage, by an estimated Poet of the present day : " True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; it liveth not in fierce desire, With dead... | |
 | Walter Scott - Clans - 1811 - 310 pages
...loss of fame. But earthly spirit could not tell The heart of them that loved so well : True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not Fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...Disgrace, and loss of fame. But earthly spirit' could not tell The heart of them that loved so well. True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...Disgrace, and loss of fame. But earthly spirit could not tell The heart of them that loved so well. True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. • It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead... | |
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