 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 pages
...my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : Fur thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me. Prior deserves, we think, more praise as a lyrist than he has hitherto received ;... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1875 - 380 pages
...of their physical sufferings. 11. My malice is no deeper than a moat, No stronger than a wall. 12. Thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. 488. ' His mind is more receptive than (his mind is) inventive.' ' I would rather... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 pages
...home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us like Horace and Lydia agree : For tbou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me." In an ode to a lady who declines to dispute any longer with the poet, and " leaves... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 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. A SIMILE. Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There,... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Richard M. Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1880 - 516 pages
...illustrate the jus et norma loquendi. Here is one of his verses: "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" Passing on to the Georgian era, we find in Cowper's correspondence the expression,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 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. A SIMILE. Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop ? There,... | |
 | 1880 - 594 pages
...looks like God's earth, but he cannot change the sea ! There it is, just as God made it at first." 2. " Thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me." Show why "her" and "me" in the above are incorrect — ie, what rule (as to conjunctions)... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 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 thou...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. A SIMILE. Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 pages
...visits, but thou ait my home ! " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Hoiace and Lydia agree : For thou art 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... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1881 - 176 pages
...looks like God's earth, but he cannot change the sea ! There it is, just as God made it at first." 2. " Thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me." Show why " her " and " me " in the above are incorrect — ie, what rule (as to... | |
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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 !... 
