 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1868 - 530 pages
...They believe in God and Saint John, and abhor the Turks. When they appear to mortal eyes it is as " Unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy...Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love," with long hair floating over their shoulders, and clothed in snow-white vesture. They are wise in the... | |
 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - English poetry - 1869 - 506 pages
...believe in God and Saint John, and abhor the Turks. 'When they appear to mortal eyes it is as " TJnwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love," with long hair floating over their shoulders, and clothed in snow-white vesture. They are wise in the... | |
 | English drama - 1870 - 610 pages
...always serviceable to us three ; Like lions shall they guard us when we please : Like Almain ratters" ned weeds ! * unfeigned are my woes. — Father, farewell — Leicester, thou stay'st Thau have the white breasts of the queen of love : From Venice shnll they drag huge argosies. And from... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 870 pages
...comments volumes with her ivory pen." We find it again in the visions of Faustus and his familiars : " Like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." Or in his Helen: " 0, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."... | |
 | sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - 588 pages
...Shall make all nations to canonize us. As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords, So shall the subjects tt rutters6 with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...kings ; I'll have them wall all Germany with brass, And make swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg. . . . Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love.' ' 1 Edward the Second, last scene, p. 288. ' Marlowe, Doctor Faiutus, ip 9 et passim. What brilliant... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...kings ; I'll have them wall all Germany with brass, And make swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg, ... Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like...giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women, or nnwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Thau have the white breasts of the queen... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...comments volumes with her ivory pen." We find it again in the visions of Faustus and his familiars : " Like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." Or in his Helen : "O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1873 - 548 pages
...Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's slaves, Or Lapland giants, trotting by oui- sides; Stmetimes like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Tlian hâve thé white breasts of thé queen of Love. 2. How I am glutted with conceit of this! tants,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 430 pages
...lions shall they guard us when we please; IJke Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or I,apland giants, trotting by our sides; Sometimes like women,...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." 1 What brilliant dreams, what desires, what vast or voluptuous wishes, worthy of a Roman Cresar or... | |
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