 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. XLIV. I love the language, that soft hastard id that stern moment tear! From thy Sire's to his humhlest suhject's hreast Is he writ on satin, With syllahles which hreathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so... | |
 | Karl August F. Mahn - 1881 - 206 pages
...Gutturalsprache, diewirgenöthigtsindganz und gar zu zischen, zu speien und zu sprudeln (Ilove thelanguage, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from...syllables which breathe of the sweet south, And gentle liqnids gliding all so pat m, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1881 - 798 pages
...Thus Lord Byron compliments the Italian in comparison with our own : " I love the language, that soil bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female...sounds as if it should be writ on satin With syllables that breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in That not a single accent... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 pages
...the soft and liquid tones of those who live in fertile plains under a more genial sky. Thus Byron: ' I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should bu writ on satin, With syllables that breuthe of the sweet South. And gentle liquids gliding all so... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...the soft and liquid tones of those who live in fertile plains under a more genial sky. Thus Byron: 'I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...melts like kisses from a female mouth. And sounds ns if it should be writ on sntin, With syllables that breathe of the tirttt South. And gentle liquids... | |
 | Henry Britton - Fiji - 1883 - 210 pages
...the instruction of my teacher I made rapid progress in the Fijian language, that soft labial tongue, "Which melts like kisses from a female mouth," And sounds as if it should be writ on satin. " The meaning of her name in Fijian I found to be love or pity. My home in the grotto soon ceased to... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...and marble to retain.1 JBeppo. Stanza 34. Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. Stanza 39. That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. Stanza 44. Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pages
...in the termination of words. Thus Lord Byron compliments the Italian in comparison with our own : " I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...sounds as if it should be writ on satin With syllables that breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in That not a single accent... | |
 | Henry Britton - Fiji - 1884 - 212 pages
...the instruction of my teacher I made rapid progress in the Fijian language, that soft labial tongue, "Which melts like kisses from a female mouth," And sounds as if it should be writ on satin. " The meaning of her name in Fijian I found to be love or pity. My home in the grotto soon ceased to... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 374 pages
...within two syllables. As to other musical qualities, Byron's contrast between Italian and English, — "I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables that breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in That not a single accent... | |
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I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South... 
