I hear of poets' fury* tell, But (God wot) wot not what they mean by it: And this I swear by blackest brook of hell, I am no pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak, and what I speak doth flow In... Littell's Living Age - Page 3711910Full view - About this book
| 1823 - 696 pages
...best wits doth please? Guess we the cause — what is it thus ? — fye, no. Or «o ?— much les». st thing in mortal eyes. No more, no more : my heart doth fa STELLA'« kiss. x. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pages
...In verse, and that my verse best wits doth please ? Guess me the cause — what is it thus? — rye, no. Or so ? — much less. How then ? sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. x. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...flow In verse, that my verse best wits doth please ? Guess me the cause — what is it thus ? — fye, no. Or so?— much less. How then? sure thus it is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not for... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pages
...verse, and that my verse best wits doth please ? Guess me the cause — what is it thus ? — fye, no. Or so ? — much less. How then ? sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. x. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...verse, and that my verse best wits doth please ? Guess me the cause — what is it thus ? — fye, no. Or so ? — much less. How then ? sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. x. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...In verse, and that my verse best wits doth please? Guess me the cause — what, is it thus 1 — fy, no. Or so ? — much less. How then ? sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. X. " Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not... | |
| 1840 - 528 pages
...verse, — and that my verse best wits doth please ? Guess me the cause, — what is it thus? fye, no. Or so ? much less. How then ? sure thus it is, My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella's kiss. Sidney, in his boyhood, had fallen in love with Anne Cecil. In the prime of his youth he became enamoured... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...best wits doth please ? Guess me the cause — what is it thus ? — fye, no. )r so? — much lees. How then ? sure thus it is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. x. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, idward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, lot... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pages
...verse, and that my verse best wits doth please ) Guess me the cause — what is it thus ? — fye, no. Or so ? — much less. How then ? sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. x. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...In verse, and that my verse best wits doth pleaset Guess me the cause — what, is it thus? — fy, no. Or so? — much less. How then ? sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. " Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not for... | |
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