 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour. Than languish in his slow-chap'd pow'r. arse Trinacrian shore: Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when call'd In secret, riding through the Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at onee our time devour, Than languish in his slow-ehap'd pow'r. 杓z xГ : t ë7 u .> l~z t^ E ? KN 2 m 恓 - j 0i2 N n" P hC LXD Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we eannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 136 pages
...now, like am'rous birds of prey, llather nt once our time devour, Than languish in his slow chup'd power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness up into one hall : And tear our pleasures with rough strife. Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though wo cannot... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...Till, at the end, the pent-up accumulation of passion bursts its floodgates in the noble lines : — Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...one ball ; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. The following verses, which are less known, are exquisitely elegant... | |
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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. 
