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" But her constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder. Melting joys about her move, Killing pleasures, wounding blisses, She can dress her eyes in love, And her lips can arm with... "
The Works of John Earl of Rochester: Containing Poems, on Several Occasions ... - Page 35
by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - 1714 - 314 pages
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...blisses, She can dress her eyes in love, And her lips can arm with kisses ; Angels listen when she speaks, She's my delight, all mankind's wonder, But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder." All through the seventeenth century the lamp of Doric song was kept alight in Scotland by...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...blisses, She can dress her eyes in love, And her lips can arm with kisses ; Angels listen when she speaks, She's my delight, all mankind's wonder, But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder." All through the seventeenth century the lamp of Doric song was kept alight in Scotland by...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...blisses, She can dress her eyes in love, And her lips can arm with kisses ; Angels listen when she speaks, She's my delight, all mankind's wonder, But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder." All through the seventeenth century the lamp of Doric song was kept alight in Scotland by...
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The Cupid: a Collection of Love Songs

English poetry - 1891 - 216 pages
...She can dress her Eyes in Love, And her Lips can arm with Kisses : Angels listen when she speaks ; She's my Delight, all Mankind's Wonder ; But my jealous Heart would break, Should we live one Day asunder. Despairing besides a clear Stream, A Shepherd forsaken was laid ; And whilst a false Nymph...
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Seventeenth Century Lyrics

George Saintsbury - English poetry - 1892 - 362 pages
...can dress her eyes in love, And her lips can arm with kisses ; Angels listen when she speaks, She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder, But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder. (180) JOHN DRYDEN. You twice ten hundred deities, To whom we daily sacrifice; You Powers that...
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Love Songs of English Poets, 1500-1800

William Ralph Hall Caine - English poetry - 1892 - 320 pages
...can dress her eyes in love, And her lips can warm with kisses. Angels listen when she speaks ; She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder, But my jealous heart would break, Should we live one day asunder. Love and Life ALL my past life is mine no more, The flying hours are gone : Like transitory...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 518 pages
...She can drees her eyes in love, And her lips can warm with kisses. Angels listen when she speaks ; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break, Should we live one day asunder. A few specimens of Rochester's letters to his wife and son are subjoined : I am very glad...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 530 pages
...can dress her eyes in love, And her iips can arm with kisses ; Angels listen when she speaks, She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder, But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder. CONSTANCY. I cannot change, as others do, Though you unjustly scorn, Since that poor swain...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...acquainted with. p. RICHTER — Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces. Ch. V. Angels listen when she speaks ; even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment, 1. DOCOL asunder. q. EARL OF ROCHESTER — Song. My Dear Mistress has a Heart. St. 2. 0 Woman ! in our hours...
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Lyrical Verse from Elizabeth to Victoria: Selected and Edited with Notes and ...

Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 pages
...; She can dress her eyes in love, And her lips can arm with kisses; Angels listen when she speaks, She's my delight, all mankind's wonder ; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder. CCIIL Rochester. SONG ON AN OVER-ASSURED MISTRESS. DORINDA'S sparkling wit and eyes United,...
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