 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...view my crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old pleasures, and solicit new ; Now turn'd to Heaven, e lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,... | |
 | William Henry Leatham - 1847 - 84 pages
...cold neglect, can avail any thing towards damping its ardour, or impairing its vivid recollection. " Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget ! Unequal task, a passion to resign, 1'or hearts so touch' d — so pierc'd — so lost as miue! Ere... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...or from despair 1 Even here, where frozen chastity retires, Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget ! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense ? And love the offender, yet detest the offence 1 How... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...view my crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old pleasures, and solicit new; Now turn'd to heaven, I weep my past offence, Now think of thee, and curse...lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love tlie oft'cmler, yet detest the offence? How... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 348 pages
...view my crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old pleasures, and solicit new ; Now turn'd to heaven, I weep my past offence, Now think of thee, and curse...my innocence. Of all affliction taught a lover yet, "Pis sure the hardest science to forget ! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love th'... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 742 pages
...ingemiscere debeam de commissis, suspiro potius de amissis. Pope, 1. 187.— Now, turn'd to Heaven, I weep my past offence, Now think of thee, and curse...innocence ; Of all affliction taught a lover yet, "Pis sure the hardest science to forget. If. Heloiii. p. 66. — Facile quidem est quemlibet conntendo... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 pages
...remembered by Pope, for there are many points of resemblance between it and the above description. ] Of all affliction taught a lover yet, Tis sure the...shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love the offender, yet detest th' offence? How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...beareth and forbeareth not In deed and word, in act and thought? Anon. 304 FOEGET. FORGIVENESS. FORGET. OF all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! # * # * # # Unequal task! a passion to resign, For hearts so touch'd, so pierced, so lost as mine!... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...view my crime, but kindle at the view, Eepent old pleasures, and solicit new ; Now turn'd to heaven, I weep my past Offence, Now think of thee, and curse...lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget ! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence ? How... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...Scotsman) points out a passage in the Epistle of Eloisa, v. 191, which Pope had taken from Dryden, — " How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love the offender, yet detest the offence?" Dryden, in Cymon and Iphigenia, has, " Then, Impotent of mind,... | |
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