Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and... The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Página 71848Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 páginas
...can remember those nights, without any other regret than that they can never more return ; for, " Wo spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy; Aits which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine." * Here, according to the original report,... | |
| Richard Lalor Sheil - 1854 - 394 páginas
...their early friendship, and the happy hours they had passed together. Quoting from Cowley, he said— ' We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine ; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy — Arts which I loved; for they, my friend ! were thine." There had been a coolness between... | |
| C. Richard - 1854 - 1002 páginas
...early friendship, and thé happy hours they had passed together. Quoting from Cowley, he said — ' We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine ; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, éloquence, and poesy — Arts which I loved ; for they, my friend ! were thine." There had been a... | |
| 1855 - 778 páginas
...nights without any other regret than that they can never more return — "We spent them not in joys or lust or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence and poesy, Arts which I loved, for these, my friend, were thine." — Coicley. The moment the court rose,... | |
| 1857 - 592 páginas
...hours, my Lord, which we can remember with no other regret than that they can return no more : " ' We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy — Wit, eloquence, and poesy ; Arts which I loved: for they, ray friend, were thine.'" the year 1782, Henry Grattan, at the... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 páginas
...Till the Ledsean stars, so famed for love, Wondered at us from above. We spent them not in toys, in lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit,...poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. memory of a young friend, but in his Epitaphinm Damonis, to that of Deodatus, has poured forth... | |
| Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 páginas
...Lord, we can remember those nights without any other regret than that they can never more return, for ' We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy, Arts which I loved, for they, my fricnd, were thine 1' " — COWLE Y. Lord Avonmore, in whose... | |
| Joseph Howe - 1858 - 664 páginas
...these I may say in the language of an Irish orator to an Irish judge — " We spent them not in sport, or lust or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, Eloquence and Poesy, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine ! " At a later period we spent four years... | |
| Henry Lushington - 1859 - 324 páginas
...influence of contagious sympathy. Like many past and future generations of students, we spent our days " In search of deep philosophy, "Wit, eloquence, and poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thiue." and Henry Lushington could not have employed them in any manner which would have been more... | |
| 1860 - 552 páginas
...friend's memory, he appeals to the reminiscences of long winter nights, — ' Spent not in toys, in lust or wine, But search of deep Philosophy, Wit,...Poetry ; Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.' His own assertion of his assiduity as a student can have been no vain boast. His continuous... | |
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