 | Michel de Montaigne - 1877 - 496 Seiten
...debility should be ranked amongst the best things." — Quintilian, Instil. Orat, V. 12. * " Old though I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." — Chaucer. examine it, find my reason the very same it was in my most licentious age, except, perhaps,... | |
 | George James De Wilde - 1878 - 274 Seiten
...famous opening lines of Cymon and Iphigeuia, in which the poet speaks in his own proper person : — " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit." Cotterstock Hall was built by Norton, says... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 Seiten
...expression) that I longed to twine my arms about her modest waist and assure her how deeply I respected her. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. However, at this juncture, I am almost ashamed to confess it, I began to revolve in my mind whether... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 Seiten
...expression) that I longed to twine my arms about her modest waist and assure her how deeply I respected her. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. However, at this juncture, I am almost ashamed to confess it, I began to revolve in my mind whether... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1436 Seiten
...to waken him if the wind went down. But there was no word of the ' Crookit Meg ' that night. V. DB. CALDCAIL was an early riser, and when he looked out...be.' ' Tush ! I forgot that she, too, is one of your scholars. But just give Alister a hint : I saw her at the Memsie ploy, and I didn't quite like the... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1881 - 752 Seiten
...occasion — or could, for he has left now the wooing of the Muse to younger spirits, hotter bloods. ' Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.' And very fond of beauty he is. No greater happiness he knows than to sit next to a pretty girl at dinner,... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 Seiten
...A delusion, a mockery, and a snare. r. LORD DESMAN — O'Connell. '1 lie Queen. Clark and flnnelly. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit. The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. s. 1 'I'.YI II.N — Oymon and Iphiyenia. Line... | |
 | Helen Mathers - 1881 - 400 Seiten
...appetite to the dignity of passion and sentiment ; warms the philosopher's imagination. Dryden says : — Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, And still inspires my wit. * Walker's Analysis of Beauty, p. 340. " To... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...hunting, which the Devil designed For one fair female, lost him half the kind. Theodore and Bonoria. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 1. When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind. Line 41. He trudged... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 Seiten
...hour Is prized beyond the sculptured -flower. 334 Win. Gullen Bryant : ticene on the Banks of Hudson. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. 335 Dryden : Gym. and Iph. Line 1. All things of beauty are not theirs alone Who hold the fee ; but... | |
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OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. 
