| Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...MCCCXXXV. All love, at first, like gen'rous wine, ferments and frets until 't is fine, But when 't is settled on the lee, And from th' impurer matter free;...still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. Butler. MCCCXXXVL One of the most bitter circumstances of poverty has been observed to be, that it... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...like generous whie, Ferments and frets until 'tis fine; For when 'tis settled on the lee, And from the impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still, the older, And proves the pleasanter, the colder. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. WORK AND WORSHIP. " Laborer. , -t orare." — ST. AUGUSTINE. CHARLEMAGNE, the... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 Seiten
...wise man, who have the absolute power to do what they please without control. Josephus on Caligula. All love, at first, like generous wine, ' Ferments and frets until 'tis fine ; Becomes the richer still, the older, And proves the pleasanter, the colder.— Butler. arts. CLAUDIUS... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 316 Seiten
...preparatives to trust ; The gilt and ornament of things, And not their movements, wheels, and springs. ALL love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and...still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. THE motions of the earth or sun (The Lord knows which), that turn, or run, Are both perform'd by fits... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 328 Seiten
...preparatives to trust ; The gilt and ornament of things, And not their movements, wheels, and springs. ALL love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and...still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. THE motions of the earth or sun (The Lord knows which), that turn, or run, Are both perform'd by fits... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1839 - 240 Seiten
...bell is ringing — so away with my papers, and "To dinner with what appetite we may." OHTAPTEK IT. BUTLER tells us that— "All love, at first, like...the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder." A hnniorous description of the effects of this pleasant frigidity is given by the facetious, yet almost... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...For perishing mortality ; Translate to earth the joys above ; For nothing goes to Heaven but Lore. of Hooker, as indeed of all his contemporaries, is outshone by that of t ; For when 'tis settled on the lee, And from the impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1854 - 312 Seiten
...preparatives to trust ; The gilt and ornament of things, And not their movements, wheels, and springs. All love at first, like generous wine, Ferments and...still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. The motions of the Earth or Sun (The Lord knows which) that turn or run, Are both perform'd by fits... | |
| Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 Seiten
...preparatives to trust ; The gilt and ornament of things, And not their movements, wheels, and springs. All love at first, like generous wine, Ferments and...still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. The motions of the Earth or Sun (The Lord knows which) that turn or run, Are both perform'd by fits... | |
| 1856 - 374 Seiten
...Shenstone. All love, at first, like gen'rous wine, Ferments and frets until '! is fine ; But when 't is settled on the lee, And from th' impurer matter free,...still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. Butler. MCCCXXXVL One of the most bitter circumstances of poverty has been observed to be, that it... | |
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