 | Richard Cumberland - 1772 - 428 pages
...Welcome home ? [Stepping lad, So foon return'd, fays I am come unwifh'd ! This is no Language of defiling Love : Love reckons' Hours for Months, and Days for Years; And every little Abfence is an Age. Ale. What fays my Lord ? Amph. No, my Alanena, no : True Love by its Impatience... | |
 | 1777 - 588 pages
...home ? {Stepping back.. So foon return'd, fays I am come unwifh'd ! This is no language of defiring love : Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little abfence is an age. Ale. What fays my lord i Amph. No, my Alcmena, no: True love by its impatience meafures... | |
 | John Bell - 1780 - 454 pages
...home ? {Stepping back, So foon return'd, fays I am come unwifh'd ! This is no language of deiiring love : Love reckons hours for months, and days for years ; And every little abfence is an age. Ale. W hat fays, my lord ? Am. No, my Alcmena, no : True love by its impatience... | |
 | Isaac Bickerstaff - 1797 - 456 pages
...return'd! Is this my welcome home \ [Stepping bach, So soon return'd — says I am come unwish'd I This is no language of desiring love : Love reckons...days for years ; And every little absence is an age. Eij Su. Why, I am going as fast as I can, topi.. the reach of your clutches. Let me but only i. at... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 464 pages
...return'd ! Is this my welcome home ) [Stiffing bach. So soon return'd — says I am come unwish'd I This is no language of desiring love : Love reckons...love by its impatience measures time, And the dear objecl never comes too soon. A'c. Nor ever came you so, nor ever shall : But you yourself are chang'd... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 pages
...still be kind, as on our nuptial night ! Alcm. So soon returned ! Amph. So soon returned! Is this thy welcome home? [Stepping back. So soon returned, says...for years • And every little absence is an age. Alcm. What says my lord ? Amph. No, my Alcmena, no : True love by its impatience measures time, And... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...still be kind, as on our nuptial night ! Alcm. So soon returned ! Amph. So soon returned! Is this thy welcome home? [Stepping back. So soon returned, says...days for years.: And every little absence is an age. Alcm. What says my lord ? Amph. No, my Alcmena, no : True love by its impatience measures time, And... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 482 pages
...still be kind, as on our nuptial night ! Alcm. So soon returned ! Amph. So soon returned ! Is this thy welcome home ? [Stepping back. So soon returned, says...days for years : And every little absence is an age. Alcm. What says my lord ? Amph. No, my Alcmena, no : True love by its impatience measures time, And... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Yeoman - - - 353 Yew-tree - - - 353 Youth - - - 354 Zeal ... .355 DICTIONARY QUOTATIONS. A. ABSENCE. LOVE reckons hours for months, and days for years ; And every little absence is an age. Dryden's Amphitrion. All flowers will droop in absence of the sun That wak'd their sweets. DryderCs... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...had been gone, Observes the warning moon with hourly view, Numbers her age, and wishes for a new. Id. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, And every little absence is an age. /A Shake not his hourglass, when his hasty sand le ebbing to the last. /./. Spanish Friar, The conscious... | |
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years • And every little absence is an age. 
