 WHAT hopes, what terrors, does thy gift create, Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate : The Myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants, and now rejects a lover's prayer. In...  Select Reviews of Literature - עמוד 4251812תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 דפים
...uncertain fate ; The Myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants,...complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, Th' unhappy lovers' grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart, . • And ease... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 דפים
...uncertain fate !" The Myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus lo Melissa's hand : Not d never been minister, or had never resigned." In the evening we went to the Townhall, which : 0 then the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbing* of an anxious heart ! Soon must this... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 דפים
...by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Nut less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants, and now rejecU, a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain ; In myrtle shad« despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, The unhappy lover's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 דפים
...Staffordshire. — MAI.ONE. The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants,...lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swam, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain: The myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, The unhappy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 דפים
...Staffordshire. — M ALONE. Tlie myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign 'd by Venus to Melissa's hand; Not ice taken of Woodhouse *, the poetical shoemaker....and that such objects were, to those who patroniz in list this bough, as you shall fix his doom, Adom Philander's head, or grace his tomb1." 1 Mrs. Piozzi... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 דפים
...of uncertain fate ! The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand, Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants and...rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings a happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain. The myrtle crowns the happy lover's head,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 דפים
...of uncertain fate ! The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand, Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants and...rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings a happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain. The myrtle crowns the happy lorer's head,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 דפים
...supreme command, Consign'd by Veuus to Melissa's hand; Not less capricious than a reiguing fair, No-.v grants, and now rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle...the throbbings of an anxious heart! Soon must this hough, as you shall fix his doom, Adorn Philander's head, or grace his tomb1." 1 Mrs. Piozzi gives... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 דפים
...uncurtain fate ! The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants and...swain. In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain ; 5 A priie of fifty pounds for the best poem " On Life, Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell." See Gent.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 דפים
...command, Consign'd to Venus by Melissa's hand), Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Oft favours, oft rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings...myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, The unhappy lovers' graves the myrtle spreads. Oh ! then, the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbings... | |
| |
