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" 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. Yet this inconstancy... "
The Coming General Election: Hints to Electors in Regard to Ecclesiastical ... - Page 14
by Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control - 1856 - 8 pages
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The Lovers' Dictionary: A Poetical Treasury of Lovers' Thoughts, Fancies ...

J. H. - 1867 - 860 pages
...; — The first foe in the field, And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore, I could not love thee dearest, much Lov'd I not honour more. Lovelace. 78. LURKING LOVE. WHEN lurking love in ambush lies...
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The Quiver: An Illustrated Magazine for Sunday and General Reading

1867 - 858 pages
...purified and deepened. Again, such lines as these, in the brief poem of Colonel Lovelace — "Yet tliis inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, во much, Loved I not honour more " — appeal to ideas that are new. And here a glanco is sufficient...
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The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of ..., Volume 6, Parts 31-36

1868 - 638 pages
...Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. EAB asks the author of the lines — ' Aud such is mine inconstancy, That you too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so much — Loved I not honour more.' We believe (but cannot at present refer) they are part of the Marquis of Ifontrose's poem to his love....
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The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...— The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Tet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honor more I Richard Lovelace — 1C49. XXV. " WHEN STARS ABE IN THE QUIET 8KIE8."...
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The King and the Commons: Cavalier and Puritan Song, Volume 1

Henry Morley - 1868 - 284 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And, with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love you, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. Richard Locelace. THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT KINGS AND SUBJECTS....
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Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford 1868

Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.) - 1869 - 144 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As thou, too, shalt adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.' A manly sentiment indeed, certain to live on with the English language in its own manly words — words...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horae, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such 10 As you too can adore ; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more ! 2. Nunnery : nvn comes from It. nonna, a grand-mother, the first 'nuns having been oldish women....
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The Holly and Mistletoe: Beautiful Bouquets, Culled from the Poets ..., Book 2

1869 - 184 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love you, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. LOVELACE. j|IKE the violet, which alone Prospers in some...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...chase. The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...love, thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. "\1 7"HKN love with unronfined wings * Hovers within my gates, And my divine...
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A Poet Hero

Marie Bothmer (Gräfin von), Mary gräfin von Bothmer - 1870 - 428 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field, And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. LOVELACE. THE blood-red flames of Moscow had lighted up the whole of Europe, and the sparks of the...
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