 On a Girdle That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer: My joy, my grief,...  A Love Gift for ... - Seite 431841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...increasingly either fantastic or unduly mild or merely decorative. Waller's lines "On a Girdle" conclude: A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this riband bound Take all the rest the sun goes round! Here the wit is very mild indeed, yet there is a... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...SeCP; SeCV-1 On a Girdle 5 It was my heaven's extremest sphere. The pale which held that lovely deer; My joy, my grief, my hope, my love. Did all within this circle move! (1. 5—8) 6 A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair! (1. 9-10)... | |
 | Lawrence L. Besserman - 1996 - 278 Seiten
...but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done. It was my heav'ns extremes! sphere, The pale which held that lovely dear: My joy, my grief,...that's good, and all that's fair: Give me but what this riband bound. Take all the rest the sun goes around. 1. The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins:... | |
 | Thomas Harding - 1999 - 100 Seiten
...William Shakespeare The Lassiter Farm sports this lonely one-holer near Sidney, built around I960. My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! — Edmund Waller Buddy Murray's two-hole privy has one seat lower for the young 'uns. It rests on... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 Seiten
...joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Do all within this circle move. A narrow compass! And yet there Dwell all that's good, and all that's fair: Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the world goes round. -Edmund Waller, On a Girdle (1685) kerll: horn,... | |
 | Nannette Stone - 161 Seiten
...Not everything happens for the good, but you can make something good out of everything that happens. My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! EDMUND WAIIER DESCRIPTION Justice isn't nice but she is fair. With a firm grip on her scale and sword,... | |
 | Jess Edwards - 2006 - 182 Seiten
...constraint of land and woman: It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! ('On a girdle', Waller 1893, I: 95) In a 1653 elegy by William Basse it is the speaker's own imposition... | |
 | George Rapanos - 2007 - 337 Seiten
...Within this sphere of time and space, its constant change seems to revolve, to circle round one center. My joy, my grief, my hope, my love did all within this circle move. There are physiological changes in the humanbody; every tissue, every cell changes a number of times... | |
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