 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1868 - 530 pages
...They believe in God and Saint John, and abhor the Turks. When they appear to mortal eyes it is as " Unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy...Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love," with long hair floating over their shoulders, and clothed in snow-white vesture. They are wise in the... | |
 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - English poetry - 1869 - 506 pages
...believe in God and Saint John, and abhor the Turks. 'When they appear to mortal eyes it is as " TJnwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love," with long hair floating over their shoulders, and clothed in snow-white vesture. They are wise in the... | |
 | English drama - 1870 - 610 pages
...always serviceable to us three ; Like lions shall they guard us when we please : Like Almain ratters" ned weeds ! * unfeigned are my woes. — Father, farewell — Leicester, thou stay'st Thau have the white breasts of the queen of love : From Venice shnll they drag huge argosies. And from... | |
 | sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - 588 pages
...always serviceable to us three ; Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain rutters6 with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants, trotting...unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Thau have the white breasts of the queen of love : From Venice shall they drag huge argosies. And from... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 870 pages
...comments volumes with her ivory pen." We find it again in the visions of Faustus and his familiars : " Like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." Or in his Helen: " 0, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg. . . . Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants,...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love.' ' 1 Edward the Second, last scene, p. 288. ' Marlowe, Doctor Faiutus, ip 9 et passim. What brilliant... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...comments volumes with her ivory pen." We find it again in the visions of Faustus and his familiars : " Like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." Or in his Helen : "O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg, ... Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women, or nnwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Thau have the white breasts of the queen... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1873 - 548 pages
...Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's slaves, Or Lapland giants, trotting by oui- sides; Stmetimes like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Tlian hâve thé white breasts of thé queen of Love. 2. How I am glutted with conceit of this! tants,... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1876 - 474 pages
...element Be always serviceable to us three ; Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain rutters|| with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland...white breasts of the queen of love: From '" * Venice shall they drag huge argosies, And from America the golden fleece ^That yearly stuffs old Philip's... | |
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Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love... 
