 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
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 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,...despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lover's heads, Th' unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 דפים
...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,...despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lover's heads, Th' unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 דפים
...swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lover's heads, Th" unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : O then...impart, And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart I Soot, must this bough, as you shall fix his doom, Adom Philander'* head, or grace his tomb." Why... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 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,...swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : 1 [He also wrote some amatory verses, before he left Staffordshire, which our author appears not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 דפים
...uncertain fate : The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants,...myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, The unhappy lovers' grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbings of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 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, and now rejects, a lover's prayer 1 He also wrote some amatory verses, before he left Staffordshire, which Boswell appears not to have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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, and now rejects, a lover's prayer 1 He also wrote some amatory verses, before he left Staffordshire, which Boswell appears not to have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 דפים
...of uncertain fate 1 The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand; Not less capricious than a reigning- fair, Now grants,...heads, The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads; Oh then the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart! Soon must this... | |
 | John Milton - 1893 - 126 דפים
...to poets. " Doctarum hederse praemia frontium " (ivy that wreathes the brow of bards). — Horace. " In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain." Dr. Johnson. (Request of a gentleman to whom a lady had given a sprig of myrtle.) 3. Harsh and Crude.... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 דפים
...command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand) Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Oft favors, oft - i. SAM'L JOHNSON — Written at the Request of a Gentleman. L. 3. Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers... | |
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