 Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies, Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour!  Theory of Morals: An Inquiry Concerning the Law of Moral Distinctions and ... - Page 156by Richard Hildreth - 1844 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...quanto jucundiores sunt litera', qua? amici absentis vents notas afi'erunt !' How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those...has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, 75 Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honor wait the wedded dame, August... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 418 pages
...confin'd,'] The widow's notions of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Fraukeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 pages
...confin'd,] The widow's notions of love are similar to those of Eloise, so happily expressed by Pope : Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. So Chaucer, in his Frankeleines Tale : Love wol not be constrained by maistrie... | |
 | Henry Ware - Christianity in literature - 1835 - 160 pages
...enough to bear the paralyzing effect of legal shackles, though there is no doubt but, in common cases, ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.'" " Have you said all you wish to say 1 " said Anna. " Not quite," replied he,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...that heaven I lose for thee. How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said ; Curse on all laws hut g* and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dome, August her deed, and sacred he... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 738 pages
...Lucretius, iv. 1 1 77. ' tribuisse quod illi Plus videat, quam mortali concedere par est.' Line 75. ' Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flics.' See Drycleii's Aurungzebe. ' Love scorns all ties, but those that are his own.'... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 pages
...qualities, with the poet's loose conception of the most gross and vicious form of earthly passion : — " Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." There might be something like reason in what they say, if men were, or ought... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 pages
...warmth, expansiveness, geniality, and entire ease and unconstrainedness ; and, as the poet tells us, Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. To the genius, then, of conversation we must make our offerings in this spirit,... | |
 | Peter Abelard, Héloïse, François Guizot - 1839 - 410 pages
...envy them that heav'n I lose for thee. How oft , when press d to marriage , have I said , (lurscon all laws but those which love has made? Love, free...air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth , let honour, wait the wedded dame , August her deed , and sacred... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...saints I see ; Nor envy them that heaven I lose for thee. How oft, when press'd to marriage, liave I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made ! Love, free as air, at sight of human tics', Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame,... | |
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