| Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 Seiten
...Though much from out the cess be spent, Nature with little is content. BARLY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented...worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first. THE DEFINITION OF BEAUTY. TO DIANEME. DEARE, though to part it be a hell, Yet, Dianeme, now farewell... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1825 - 334 Seiten
...Though much from out the cess be spent, Nature with little is content. BARLY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented...worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first. THE DEFINITION OF BEAUTY. BEAUTY no other thing is then a beame Flasht out between the middle and extreame.... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 442 Seiten
...their confinement by kisses, as appears from this epigram : We two are last in hell: what may we fear To- be tormented or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We wish in hell we had been last and first. Herrick's Htxperides. The Scottish barley-break differs... | |
| 1867 - 320 Seiten
...Thus Herrick in his Hesperides has the following epigram : Sarley-break : or Last in Hell. We two arc last in Hell : what may we feare To be tormented, or kept Pria'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst We'll wish in Hell wo had been Last and... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1846 - 324 Seiten
...the Cefe be fpent, Nature with little is content. i Early-Break : or, Laft in Hell. WE two are laft in Hell : what may we feare To be tormented, or kept Pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kifling be of plagues the worft, We'll wifh, in Hell we had been Laft and Firft. B The Definition of... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1846 - 330 Seiten
...the Cefs be fpent, Nature with little is content. Early-Break: or, Laft in Hell. ... WE two are laft in Hell: what may we feare To be tormented, or kept Pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kifling be of plagues the worft, We'll wifh, in Hell we had been Laft and Firft. B The Definition of... | |
| Brand - 1849 - 544 Seiten
...introduced. The subsequent is from Herrick's Hesperides, p. 34: " Barley-break, or Last in Hell. " We two are last in Hell: what may we feare To be tormented,...worst, We'll wish in Hell we had been last and first." Dr. Jamieson, in his Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, calls this " a game generally... | |
| 1907 - 684 Seiten
...poem on ' Barleybrake ; or, Last in Hell ' : — We two are lost in Hell ; what may we feare To l>e tormented, or kept Pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We '11 wish in Hell we had been last or first. The forfeits evidently were kisses. In the third act... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 Seiten
...them thanks for it. LXX. BARLEY-BREAK; OR LAST IN HELL. We two are last in hell ; what may we fear, To be tormented, or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if...worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first. CHARM. In the morning when ye rise Wash your hands and cleanse your eyes ; Next, be sure ye have a... | |
| William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe - 1854 - 610 Seiten
...BARLEY-BREAK, OR LAST IN HELL. We two are last in Hell : what may we fear To be tormented, or kept prisoners here : Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish, in Hell we had been last and first. A verse from Herrick's Hesperides, alluding to a pleasant forfeit in the old game of Barley-break,... | |
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