 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 460 pages
...of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Frankeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie : Whan maistrie cometh,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 pages
...of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Frankeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie : Whun maistrie cometh,... | |
 | Henry Ware - Christianity in literature - 1835 - 160 pages
...effect of legal shackles, though there is no doubt but, in common cases, ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.'" " Have you said all you wish to say 1 " said Anna. " Not quite," replied he, with a smile that once... | |
 | Edward Strutt Abdy - African Americans - 1835 - 434 pages
...drives Love out of the window ; and that the little god, at the sight of human blood, as "at the sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." The weather was at this time so cold, that fires were to be found in all the houses. The winter had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...marriage, have I said ; Curse on all laws hut those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight lexander Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dome, August her deed, and sacred he her fame ; Before true... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 488 pages
...give us pain? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all ? " The jealous God at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." Why does not our self-love in like manner, if it is so perfectly indifferent and unconcerned a principle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...marriage, have I said ; Curse on all laws but those which love has made ! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacked be her fame ; Before true... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 pages
...geniality, and entire ease and unconstrainedness ; and, as the poet tells us, Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. To the genius, then, of conversation we must make our offerings in this spirit, if we would find acceptance... | |
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How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies... 
