 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! " Then finish, dear Cloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior ? Love and Pleasure find... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...way, They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, Arid let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE. I SENT for Radclifle ; was so ill, That other... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ' " Then finish, dear Cloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior ? Love and Pleasure find... | |
 | 1893 - 958 pages
...better if he had never departed from the simplest forms. Prior could beg of his Chloe, — u Let U8 like Horace and Lydia agree, For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, Aa he waa a poet eubliiner than me ; " but the very sublimest of writers of English light verse have... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 410 pages
...not use this diction, despite Dr. Lowth's effete criticism. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree. For thou...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. 142 between these tongues. Our early writers use most for very, as the very least,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1860 - 338 pages
...way ; 1 They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Cloe, this jpast-oral^war ; And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : For thou...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. PALLAS AND YENUS. AN EPIGRAM. THE Trojan swain had judg'd the great dispute, And... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior ? Love and pleasure find singers... | |
 | William Lennie - 1864 - 192 pages
...information. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree ; For them art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet subliracr than me. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1866 - 350 pages
...in my way ; * They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Cloe, this pastoral war ; And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. PALLAS AND VENUS. AN EPIGRAM. Trojan swain had judg'd the great dispute, And beauty's... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 376 pages
...saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. Matthew Prior. xcv. PHYLLIDA, that loved to dream In the grove, or by the stream... | |
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... tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home !... 
