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" 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 Life of Andrew Marvell: The Celebrated Patriot: with Extracts and ... - Page 99
by John Dove - 1832 - 116 pages
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

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...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

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...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ...

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,...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 13

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...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1

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...
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The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author

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...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

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,...
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The Christian world magazine (and family visitor)., Volume 9

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...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 20; Volume 23

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...
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The poetical works of Andrew Marvell [ed. by J.R. Lowell]. Repr. of the Amer. ed

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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