| 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... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 220 pages
...like amorous birds of prey Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chaped power. j 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 - 1872 - 564 pages
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r. 40 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... | |
| Abraham Holroyd - Ballads, English - 1873 - 228 pages
...And now, like amorous hirds of prey Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-ehaped power, 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... | |
| Maria Hall - 1875 - 488 pages
...read too closely ; but he is quite as much a mystery to myself. CHAPTER XIII. "MEMOR ET FIDELIS." " Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball." — MARVEL. THE mysterious behaviour of Master Andrew Marvel would have been explained to Alice,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chap'd pow'r. 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... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 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, tho' we cannot... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 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, tho' we cannot... | |
| Arthur Henry Bullen - English poetry - 1889 - 168 pages
...And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt l 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 Dunn - English fiction - 1894 - 608 pages
...yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.' And at the close he applies the moral : — ' I,et 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.' What think you of... | |
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