 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1875 - 534 páginas
...solitary example of amatory verso contained in his works. Ah friend ! 'tis true, — this truth yon lovers know, In vain my structures rise, my gardens...here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the checkered shade, The morning bower, the evening... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1876 - 416 páginas
...State, died February 15, 1720, aged 35. " Ah, friei.d, 'tis true — tliis truth you lovers knowIn vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain...here; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. " What are the gay parterre, the checker'd shade, The morning bower, the ev'ning... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 188? - 560 páginas
...but half a man ; of the muses, but I care not for them ; of my grotto, but I find no pleasure in it. "Ah, friend ! 'tis true, this truth you lovers know,...of sloping greens; Joy lives not here ; to happier scats It flics, And only dwells where Wortley oasts her eyes." The hateful little hatter murmured this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 páginas
...else, except your wife. TO MR. GAY, WHO HAD CONGRATULATED MR. POPE ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS. AH, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know...greens : Joy lives not here, — to happier seats it flics, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequered shade,... | |
 | David Vedder - 1878 - 410 páginas
...— Spence. " And retained as a relic the string of her bodice." — Stanza vii., line 12, p. 135. " In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes, Of...here— to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes." " These sweet and musical lines, which fall on the ear with such a lulling... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1879 - 536 páginas
...on this account, as well as for being the solitary example of amatory verse contained in his works. Ah friend ! 'tis true, — this truth you lovers know,...greens; Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, Aud only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the checkered shade, The morning... | |
 | 1880 - 224 páginas
...congratulated him on having completed his house and gardens, he sadly replied :— Ah, friend ! Tis true—the truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise,...hanging mountains and of sloping greens ; Joy lives not here—to happier soils it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. The grotto remains,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 572 páginas
..."said to subterranean grotto, which he has be added by Mr. Pope." furnished with looking-glass, and In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of...happier seats it flies, • And only dwells where Wortley ' casts her eyes. What are * the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 páginas
...robb'd the whole tree P TO MR. GAY, WHO BAD CONGRATULATED MR. POPE OS FINISHING HIS HOTTSK AND GARDENS.1 AH, friend ! 'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; 1 In Hammond's Miscellany, " Re- they tell me it has a very good efi'crt new." I here send you some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 550 páginas
...HAD CONGRATULATED MR. PUI'E ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AX D (!AK1)ENS. ! AH, friend ! 'tis true—this truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow; 1 In Hammond's Miscellany, " Renew." * These lines must have been written in the early part of 1722.... | |
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tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where... 
