 Your Love to Berenice is due alone: Love, like that pow'r which I adore, is one. When fixt to one, it safe at Anchor rides, And dares the fury of the winds and tides: But losing once that hold, to the wide Ocean born, It drives away at will, to every...  The invisible spy, by Explorabilis - Page 77by Eliza Haywood - 1773Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...Ball, Or Serenade, which the ftarv'd Lover fmgs To his proud Fair, beft quitted with Difdain. Milt. When fix'd to one, Love fafe at Anchor rides, And dares the Fury of the Wind and Tides ; But lofing once that Hold, to the wide Ocean born, It drives away at Will, to ev'ry... | |
 | John Dryden - 1725 - 438 pages
...Your Love to Berenice is due alone : Love, like that Pow'r which I adore, is one. When fixt to one, it fafe at Anchor rides, And dares the Fury of the Winds and Tides : But lofing once that Hold, to the wide Ocean born, It drives away at will, to every Wave a Scorn. Max.... | |
 | Eliza Fowler Haywood - English fiction - 1755 - 310 pages
...one beauty has the power long to retain the heart fhe has loft ; — fo juft are the poet's words : ' When fix'd to one, love fafe at anchor * rides, *...And dares the fury of the winds and * tides ; ' But lofing once that hold, to the * wide ocean borne, * It drives at will, to ev'ry wave a ' fcorn. Marriage,... | |
 | Mr. Cresswick - 1792 - 452 pages
...! Here Love his golden fhafts employs ; here lights His conftant lamp, and waves his purple wings. When fix'd to one, Love fafe at anchor rides^ And dares the fury of the wind and tides... THE WOMEN OF HENSBERG. WHEN the emperor Conrade the Third had befieged Gullphus,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 462 pages
...love to Berenice is due alone; Love, like that power which I adore, is one. When fixed to one, it safe at anchor rides, And dares the fury of the winds and tides; But losing once that hold, to the wide ocean borne, It drives away at will, to every wave a scorn. Ma.v.... | |
 | James Grant - 1851 - 334 pages
...would have of James Hepburn!" CHAPTER XIX. THE REJECTED AND THE RIVAL. When fix'd to one, Love safe at anchor rides, And dares the fury of the winds and tides ; But losing once that hold, to the wide ocean borne, It drives at will, to every wave a scorn. Dryden. THOUGH... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...approach ing storms, And now prevailing love her face reforms. DRYDEN. Love, fixt to one, still safe at anchor rides, And dares the fury of the winds and tides : But, losing once that hold, to the wide ocean borne, It drives away at will, to ev'ry wave a scorn. DRYDEN.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...approaching storms, And now prevailing love her face reforms. DRYUEN. Love, fixt to one, still safe at anchor rides, And dares the fury of the winds and tides ; But, losing once that hold, to the wide ocean borne, It drives away at will, to ev'ry wave a scorn. DRYDEN.... | |
 | John I. Jones - 1884 - 254 pages
...appetite ; Therefore love moderately; long love doth so. SHAKESPEABB, (27) Love, fix'd to one, still safe at anchor rides And dares the fury of the winds and tides ; But losing once that hold, to the wide ocean borne, It drives away at will, to every wave a scorn ! —... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1883 - 490 pages
...to Berenice is due alone ; Love, like that power which I adore, is one. When fixed to one, it safe at anchor rides, And dares the fury of the winds and tides ; But losing once that hold, to the wide ocean borne, It drives away at will, to every wave a scorn. Max.... | |
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