 Since, if my plaints serve not to approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire, but none deserve, A place in her affection, I...  Violet; or, The danseuse [by M.D. Malet]. - Stran 158avtor: lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 710 strani
...the lines are these : But seeing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire, and none deserve A place in her affection ; I rather choose...recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing. And a little further, very persuasively : Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though never... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 582 strani
...conquest of thy beauty ; It comes not from defect of love, But fear t' exceed my duty. For knowing that 1 sue to serve A Saint of such perfection, As all desire,...recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing. ENGLISH POETRV. , 201 Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty : A beggar... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 strani
...not t' approve The conquest of thy beauty ; It comes not from defect of love, But fear f exceed my duty. For knowing that I sue to serve A Saint of such perfection, As all desire, hut none deserve A place i» her affection ; I rather choose to want relief, Than venture the revealing... | |
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 strani
...not t' approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of lore, But fear t' exceed my duty. For knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As nil desire, but none deserve A place in her affection, I rather choose to wnnt relief Than venture... | |
 | 1835 - 378 strani
...were not t'approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But fear t'exceed my duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of...recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing ! Thus those desires that boil so high In any mortal lover, When Reason cannot make them die, Discretion... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - 1835 - 300 strani
...seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of...but none deserve, A place in her affection, I rather chuse to want relief Than venture the revealing ; Where glory recommends the grief, Despair destroys... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 strani
...t'approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But fear t'exceed my duty. lur, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection,...desire, but none deserve A place in her affection. l rather choose to want relief Than venture the revealing : Where glory recommends the grief, Despair... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - 1835 - 298 strani
...seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection As all desire, but uone deserve, A place in her affection, I rather cliusc to want relief Than venture the revealing ;... | |
 | Garland - 1836 - 246 strani
...seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. For knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such...but none deserve A place in her affection ; I rather chuse to want relief, Than venture the revealing : Where glory recommends the grief, Despair destroys... | |
 | Thomas Gaspey - 1836 - 1034 strani
...steel pointed at his heart — if heart, indeed, a knave so treacherous can possess." CHAPTER XIX. " I rather choose to want relief, Than venture the revealing...recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing." SIR W. RALEIGH. IF one spark of hope remained in the mind of Grace, that Wilmot had not acted the part... | |
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