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" I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born : I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produced a destiny, And that vice-nature, custom, lets it... "
Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution - Page 99
by William Hazlitt - 1819 - 343 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 201

1905 - 606 pages
...died of a broken heart. They, these chroniclers of Arcadian story, like Dr. Donne after them — (' I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of love was born') — would seem to have made it their main endeavour to conjure up that pagan world of fancy and invention...
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The Living Age, Volume 199

1893 - 840 pages
...of his cascades of ringing monosyllables, his For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love, or, I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Love was born, i O more than moon, Draw not thy seas to drown me in thy sphere. In these and similar passages, of which...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution." Again, the following lines, the title of which is...of Love was born ; I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low, as to love one which did scorn. But since this God produc'da destiny, And...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution." Again, the following lines, the title of which is...lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Love was bom; I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low, as to love one which did scorn. But...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...heaven being gone, Will leave this to eontrol, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution." Again, the following lines, the title of which is...of Love was born ; I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low, as to love one which did scorn. But since this God produc'da destiny, And...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 pages
...knows how I took a fancy that they held the clue : I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who dy'd before the God of Love was born. I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produc'da Destiny, And that...
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Thoreau: the Poet-naturalist: With Memorial Verses

William Ellery Channing - 1873 - 388 pages
...Walden sierras given as a theme, — and they required to daguerreotype that in good words : — " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of love was born." I will do my best ; but, as we were speaking of architecture, remember that this art consists in the...
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Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 pages
...heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution." Again, the following lines, the title of which is...mosaic-work. " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Wlio died before the God of Love ieas fcora : I cannot think that he, who then lov'd most, Sunk so...
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Dryden

George Saintsbury - 1881 - 216 pages
...finding on thd body of his dead lover A bracelet of bright hair about the bone when he tells us how — I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born; the effect is that of summer lightning on a dark night suddenly exposing unsuspected realms of fantastic...
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Hesperides

Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 pages
...of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity?" — Paradise Lost. " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Love was born." — DONNE. I. " One taste of the old times sets all to rights." — Child Roland to the Dark Tower...
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