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" Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield.... "
The Retrospective Review - Page 120
1821
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Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures and Triumphs

Osgood Eaton Fuller - Biography - 1884 - 564 pages
...he had taken when duty bade him turn from Edith ; which recalls the lines of Lovelace to Lucasta : " Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe of the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is...
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Familiar Talks on English Literature: A Manual Embracing the Great Epochs of ...

Abby Sage Richardson - English literature - 1884 - 498 pages
...dear, I'm unkind, When from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To wars and arms I flee. " True, a new mistress now I chase — The first foe...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. " Tet this mconstancy is such As you, too, should adore; I should not love thee, dear, so mucb, Loved...
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The why of Music: Dialogues in an Unexplored Region of Appreciation

Donald Nivison Ferguson - Music - 1969 - 317 pages
...much, Loved I not Honour more!" but there's mighty little musical imagery in it.* * "To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars": Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery 7. Couldn't you sing about the nunnery of Lucasta's "chaste breast and quiet mind"? F. Yes, but that...
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More Random Walks in Science

R.L. Weber - Science - 1982 - 236 pages
...precaution of including in his marriage proposal the immortal lines of Richard Lovelace (1618—1658): Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To pump and 'scope I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, My own on-line computer; And with a stronger...
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The Plays of George Etherege

Michael Cordner - Literary Collections - 1982 - 372 pages
...the Wanes' (Poems, ed. CH Wilkinson (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1930), p. 18): True; a new Mistresse now I chase, The first Foe in the Field; And with a stronger Faith imbrace A Sword, a Horse, a Shield. Yet this Inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore; I could not...
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Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England

Mervyn Evans James - History - 1986 - 496 pages
...in the thick of battle with the Puritan foe, as in Lovelace's well-known poem: "... a new Mistresse now I chase/ The first Foe in the Field/ And with a stronger Faith imbrace/ A Sword, a Horse, a Shield". The attitude contrasts with the Puritan military stress on disciplined...
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The Elizabethan Hamlet

Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 230 pages
...nunneries were no longer the subjects for scurrilous jokes. Richard Lovelace in 1646 wrote to his Lucasta: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. And Milton in his // Penseroso: Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure. Thus...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...13-18) CaPo; GTBS; GTBS-P; LiTB; MeLP; MOS; OBEV; OBS; SeCP; SeCV-1 To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 8 Time h@ . (1. 1—4) 9 Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much,...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...the military conflict is accommodated and, in some ways, set aside by Lovelace: True; a new Mistresse now I chase, The first Foe in the Field; And with a stronger Faith imbrace A Sword, a Horse, a Shield. Carew at the end of 'To my friend GN from Wrest', as we have seen,...
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This Everlasting Silence: The Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Sir ...

Nancy Robinson Flannery - Literary Collections - 2005 - 194 pages
...looking rather shaggy. We have managed to keep the dogs alive so far. From Lovelace/ little transposed: Tell me not; sweet/ I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To Antarctica I fly. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore/ [22] / could not love thee/...
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