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" Yet try what changes gratitude can make. A Spanish wife, perhaps, would promise more : Profuse in charms, and prodigal of tears, Would promise all things, — and forget them all. But I have weaker charms, and simpler arts. Guileless of soul, and left... "
The Jewish Spy: Being a Philosophical, Historical, and Critical ... - Page 186
by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens (marquis d') - 1766
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British Theatre: Alzira, by Aaron Hill [adapted from Voltaire] 1791. The ...

John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 376 pages
...— if aught there is can charm like love Forgive me : I shall be betray'd by fear, To promise, till I overcharge my power.' Yet — try what changes gratitude can make. A Spanish wife, perhaps, wou'd promise more : Profuse in charms, and prodigal of tears, Wou'd promise...
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Love Makes a Man: Or, The Fop's Fortune. A Comedy

Colley Cibber - 1797 - 460 pages
...if aught there is c.in charm like love Forgive me : I shall be betray 'd by fear, To promise, till I overcharge my power.' Yet — try what changes gratitude can make. A Spanish wife, perhaps, wou'd promise more : Profuse in charms, and prodigal of tears, Wou'd promise...
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The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1845 - 886 pages
...if aught there is can charm like love. — Forgive me ! I shall be betrayed by fear To promise till I overcharge my power. Yet try what changes gratitude can make. A Spanish wife, perhaps, would promise more : Profuse in charms, and prodigal of tears, Would promise...
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The poets and poetry of Europe, with intr. and biogr. notices, by H.W ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 960 pages
...if aught there is can charm like love. — Forgive me ! I shall be betrayed by fear To promise till I overcharge my power. Yet try what changes gratitude can make. A Spanish wife, perhaps, would promise more: Profuse in charms, arid prodigal of tears, Would promise...
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The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1871 - 954 pages
...if aught there is can charm like love. — Forgive me ! I shall be betrayed by fear To promise till I overcharge my power. Yet try what changes gratitude can make. A Spanish wife, perhaps, would promise more : Profuse in charms, and prodigal of tears, Would promise...
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