 Love various minds does variously inspire : It stirs in gentle bosoms gentle fire, Like that of incense on the altar laid ; But raging flames tempestuous souls invade : A fire which every windy passion blows, . With pride it mounts, or with revenge it...  Massenburg [by C.M. Caddell]. - Page 234by Cecilia Mary Caddell - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1801 - 436 pages
...Wretched abroad must prove, and curs'd at home. For, as a fenfible and elegant poet has well obferved, Love various minds does variously inspire ; It stirs...laid : But raging flames tempestuous souls invade With fire which every windy passion blows : With pride it mounts, or with revenge it glows. I am, indeed,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1804 - 416 pages
...the sentiment of the poet— Love, various minds does variously inspire ; In gentle bosoms kindles gentle fire, Like that of incense on the altar laid;...which every windy passion blows, With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. But, as the character of Sir Charles is the most instructive, that of Clementina... | |
 | Samuel Richardson, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Novelists, English - 1804 - 414 pages
...the sentiment of the poet — Love, various minds does variously inspire ; In gentle bosoms kindles gentle fire, Like that of incense on the altar laid...which every windy passion blows, With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. But, as the character of Sir Charles is the most instructive, that of Clementina... | |
 | John Corry - 1808 - 252 pages
...Fieui of London," Sfc. VOL. I. Love, various minds does variously inspire, It stirs in gentle Nature's gentle fire, Like that of incense on the altar laid...But raging flames tempestuous souls invade ; A fire that ev'ry windy passion blews. With Pride it mounts, and with Revenge it glows. DHYDEN. Sontton: PRINTED... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 462 pages
...does variously inspire : He stirs, in gentle natures, gentle fire, Like that of incense on the altars laid ; But raging flames tempestuous souls invade;...every windy passion blows ; With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. But I accursed, who servilely must move, And sooth his passion, for his... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 450 pages
...does variously inspire : He stirs, in gentle natures, gentle fire, Like that of incense on the altars laid ; But raging flames tempestuous souls invade;...every windy passion blows ; With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. But I accursed, who servilely must move, And sooth his passion, for his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...and agitations of life. What he says of Love may contribute to the • explanation of his character : Love various minds does variously inspire : It stirs...flames tempestuous souls invade '. A fire which every wjndy passion blows, With pride it mounts, or with revenge it glows. Dryden'g Dry den's was not one... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...contribute to the explanation of his character : Love various minds does variously inspire: It stire in gentle bosoms gentle fire, Like that of incense...which every windy passion blows, With pride it mounts, or with revenge it glows. Dryden's was not one of the gentle bosoms: love, as it subsists in itself,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...and agitations of life. What he says of love may contribute to the explanation of ehis character : Love various minds does variously inspire : It stirs...which every windy passion blows, With pride it mounts, or with revenge it glows. Dryden's was not one of the gentle bosoms : love, as it subsists in itself,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...and agitations of life. What he says of love may contribute to the explanation of chis character : Love various minds does variously inspire : It stirs...which every windy passion blows. With pride it mounts, or with revenge it glows. Dryden's was not one of the gentle bosoms : love,, as it subsists in itself,... | |
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