 | English essays - 1753 - 712 pages
...prove, Alas ! I give my heart to love. But (hould the yielding virgin fmile, Drefs'd in hcrfpotlefs marriage robes, I'd look on thrones and crowns as vile, The mafter of two fairer globes. If fuch the rapt'rons moments prove, O let me give my heart to love. 6. The bufmcfs of my future days, My ev'ry... | |
 | English essays - 1753 - 716 pages
...to love. But fhould the yielding virgin fmile, Drefs'd in herfpotlefs marriage robes, I'd look oti thrones and crowns as vile. The mafter of two fairer...rapt'rous moments prove, O let me give my heart to love. 6. The bufinefs of my future days, My ev'ry thought, my ev'ry pray'r, Should be employ'd to fing her... | |
 | Arthur Murphy - 1786 - 482 pages
...mufick, and the mufe, My foul is dumb, and deaf, and blind. Though fuch the mournful moments prove, Alas ! 1 give my heart to love. V. But fhould the...days, My ev'ry thought, my ev'ry pray'r, Should be employ'd to fing her praife,. Or lent to Heav'n alone, for her. If fuch the rapt'rous moments prove,O... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...tho ght my every pray'r, Shall be f mpl->y'dm fn>g her praife, Or (Vn- to bounteous heav n for her. If fuch the rapt'rous moments prove, O let me give my heart 10 love '. Potts (hall wonder at my love, Painters (hall crowd her face to fee," And when they would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...crowd her face to see, And when they wou'd the passions move, Shall copy her, and think of me. If such the rapt'rous moments prove, O let me give my heart to love. Old age shall burn as bright as youth, No respite to our bliss be given : Then mingled in one flame... | |
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I'd look on thrones and crowns as vile,. The mafter of two fairer globes. If fuch the rapt'rous moments prove, O ! let me give my heart to love. 