 | Michel de Montaigne - 1902 - 394 Seiten
...should be found to be amongst the best things." — Quintilian, Inttit. Oral., v. 12. * " Old though I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." — Chaucrr. now than it formerly did, nor that it has acquired any new light : wherefore, if there... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. Theodore and Honoria. Line 227. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 1. 1 See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 198. a Tin's proverb Dryden repeats... | |
 | 1906 - 810 Seiten
...on: But Beauty's self she is When all her robes are gone, ANONYMOUS, Madrigal: My Love in Her Attire 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,1 DRYDEN, Cymon and Iphigenia, lines 1-3 A thing... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1906 - 316 Seiten
...Yes, but I was once young, and surely I may say with the poet, I forget which of them, 'Though old I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.' I forget, indeed, the names of the ladies as completely, pretty nigh, as I do that of the poets ; but... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1908 - 426 Seiten
...wretched remainder give the He to the pleasant, sound, and long part of my life : I 1 " Old though I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." — CHAUCER. 5 Diogenes Laertius, vi. 5. would present myself uniformly throughout. Were I to live... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. 334 II'i*if Cullen Bryant: Scene on the Banks of Hndson Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. 335 Dryilen: Cym. anu Iph. Linel All things of beauty are not theirs alone Who hold the fee ; but unto... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 742 Seiten
...thought you hated poetry ? he smiles and says, Not Dryden, and half under his breath : Though I am old, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. But then, I persist, Shakespeare and Milton . . . Bombast and puns and smut, that's your divine bard ;... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...goes; It trembles to a lily, — It wavers to a rose. AUSTIN DOBSON — At the Sign of the Lyre. 19 Nc Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. DRYDEN — Cymon and Iphigenia. L. 1. 20 When... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 Seiten
...for Jacob Tmfoa, within Gray's Inn Colt next Cray's Inn Lane. MDCC. CYMON and IPHIGENIA FROM BOCCACE 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. In that sweet isle, where Venus keeps her court,... | |
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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. 
