| William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 232 pages
...languish in his slow-chapp'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run." In Browne's 'Pastorals,' notwithstanding... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 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 up into one ball ; And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot... | |
| 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, up into one ball ; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. The following verses,... | |
| Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...languish in his slow-chapp'd power. Lot us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball ; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life Tims, though we cannot make our sun Stand »till, yet we will make him run." In some line« entitled... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...sport us while we may ; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Than languish in his slow-chappM pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness up into one ball ; And tcnr our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gales oflife. Thus, though we cannot... | |
| Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 408 pages
...And now, like amorous birds of prey Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chaped power. 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 ; Thus, though we cannot... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 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, up into one ball ; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. The following verses,... | |
| 1873 - 972 pages
...too closely ; but he is quite as much a mystery to myself. CUAPTES XIII. — " MEMOR ET FIDRLIS." " Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into ono ball." — MAEVBL. The mysterious behiviour of Master Andrew Marvel would have been explained to... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1869 - 822 pages
...coy, but use your time." Now, therefore, while the yonthf ul hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, 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. Thus, though we cannot... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...And now, like amorous birds of prey Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chaped power. 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 ; Thus, though we cannot... | |
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