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" Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. "
Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ... - Page 143
by William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 pages
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run." In Brown's Pastorals, notwithstanding the weakness and prolixity of his general plan, there are repeated...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run." In Brown's Pastorals, notwithstanding the weakness and prolixity of his general plan, there are repeated...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...; And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we eannot m'I$ 2 sv - !y QF G $gD F [ ֋( } { & } < ...Xm { : ʲ N - 6 fk @ . Dj aE S Ce Y)ŷ A3y ] T B eannot thrive Who kill'd thee. Thou ne'er didst alive Them any harm : alas ! nor eou'd Thy death yet...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish'd in his slow chap'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Marvefl DCCCLX. O madness, to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish'd in his slow chap'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Marvelf. DCCCLX. O madness, to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, • Than languish in his slow chap'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. JOHN DRYDEN, the son of Erasmus Dryden, of Tichmersh, who was himself the third son of Sir Erasmus...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow chap'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Jons DRTDEM, the son of Erasmus Dryden, of Tichmersh, who was himself the third son of Sir Erumus Dryden,...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow chap'd pow'r. 108 Dryden. Let us roll all onr strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ft ryde u. John Dryden ward am 9. August 1631 (nach Anderen 1632) zu Aldwinkle in Northamptonshire...
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The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author

Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 408 pages
...like amorous birds of prey Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chaped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. THE UNFORTUNATE LOVER. ALAS ! how pleasant are their days, With whom the infant love yet plays I Sorted...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 20; Volume 23

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1869 - 822 pages
...coy, but use your time." Now, therefore, while the yonthf ul hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. The little poem of which we have here quoted the greater part is characteristic of Marvell in many ways,...
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