 Fate could not choose a more malicious hour! What greater curse could envious Fortune give, Than just to die, when I began to live! Vain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave, Now warm in love, now withering in the grave! Never, O never more to see the...  Essays and Studies - Page 78by John Churton Collins - 1895 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...tongue, My fpirits feeble, and my pains are ftrong : This I may fay, I only grieve to die Becaufe I lofe my charming Emily : To die, when Heaven had put you in my power, Fate could not chufe a more malicious hour! What greater curfe could envious fortune give, Than juft to die, when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...Caus'd him to fend for Emily in hafte. I 1 I 'This I may fay, I only grieve to die 23ecaufe I lofe my charming Emily ; To die, when Heaven had put you in my power., With her, at his defire, came Palamon ; Then on his pillow rais'd, he thus begun. No language can exprefs... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...tongue, .My fpirits feeble, and my pains are ftrong: This I may fay, I only grieve to die Becaufe I lofe my charming Emily: To die, when Heaven had put you in my powet, Fate could not choofe a more malicious hour! What greater curfe could envious fortune give,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...My fpirit» feeble, and my pains are ftrong : This 1 inav fay, I only grieve to die, Becaufe I lofe pow'r, Fate could not choofc a more malicious hour ! What greater curfe could envious fortune give,... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...tongue, My fpirits feeble, and my pains arc ftrong : This I may fay, I only grieve to die Becaufe I lofe my charming Emily : To die, when Heaven had put you in my power, Fate could not choofe a more malicious hour ! What greater curie could envious fortune give, Than juft to die, when... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...tongue, My fpirits feeble, and my pains arc ftrong : This I may fay, 1 only grieve to die Becanfe I lofe my charming Emily : To die, when Heaven had put you in my power, Fate could not choofe a more malicious hour ! What greater curfe could envious fortune give, Than juft to die, when... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...I have lov'd ! — Excuse my fait' ring tongue ; " My spirits, feeble ; and my pains are strong : " This I may say, I only grieve to die " Because I lose my charming Emily : " To die, when Heav'n had put you inmypow'r: " Fate could not chuse a more malicious hour! " \Vhat greater curse could... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...attend. How I have loved, excuse my faultering tongue, My spirits feeble, and my pains are strong: This I may say, I only grieve to die, Because I lose...when heaven had put you in my power ! Fate could not chuse a more malicious hour. What greater curse could envious fortune give, Than just to die, when... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...attend. How I have loved, excuse my raultering tongue, My spirits feeble, and my pains are strong: This I may say, I only grieve to die, Because I lose...when heaven had put you in my power ! Fate could not chuse a more malicious hour. What greater curse could envious fortune give, Than just to die, when... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Emily '<> die, when Heaven had put you in my pow'r, "ate could not choose a more malicious hour ! *Vhat - beg^n to live ! fain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave, tfow warm in love, now with' ring in the... | |
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