| Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...Conftant, in Nature were Inconftancy; For't were to break the Laws her felf has made. Our Subftances themfelves do fleet and fade: The moft fix'd Being...and fly Swift as the Wings of Time 'tis meafur'd by. T'imagine then that Love fhould never ceafe, Love, which is but the Ornament of thefe, Were quite as... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 384 pages
...; and to be Conftant, in Nature were inconftancy ; For 'twere to break the laws herfelf has made i Our fubftances themfelves do fleet and fade ; The...fly, Swift as the wings of time 'tis meafur'd by. T' imagine then that Love fhould never ceafe (Love, which is but the ornament of thefe) Were quite... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 378 pages
...break the laws herfelf has made i Our fubftances themfelves do fleet and fade i The moft fix'd bemg ftill does move and fly, Swift as the wings of time 'tis meafur'd by. T' imagine then that Love mould never ceafe (Love, which is but the ornament of thefe) Were quite as... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...Nature were inconftancy ; For 'twere to break the laws herlelf has made : Our fubftances themfelvcs do fleet and fade ; The moft fix'd being ftill does move and fly, Swift as the wings of Time • is meafur'd by. T' imagine then that love ihould never ceafc, (Love, which is but the ornament... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 820 pages
...; and to be Conftant, in Nature were inconftancy , For 'twere to break the laws herfelf has made i Our fubftances themfelves do fleet and fade ; The...does move and fly, Swift as the wings of time 'tis mcafur'd by. T' imagine then that Love mould never ceafe (Love, which is but the ornament of thefe)... | |
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