 FOLLOW a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it, it will pursue. So court a mistress, she denies you, Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men ? At morn and even shades are longest, At noon...  Songs of Society, from Anne to Victoria - Page xviiedited by - 1880 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...SHADDOWI. FOLLOW a shaddow, it still flies you, Seeme to flye it, it will pursue: So court a mistris, she denies you ; Let her alone, she will court you. Say, are not women duly, then, Stil'd hut the shaddows of us men ? At mome, and even, shades are longest ; At noone, they... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...happy imitations of particular passages in that poet. VII. X SONG THAT WOMEN ARE BUT MEN'S SHADOWS. Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it,...she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styl'd but the shadows of us men ? At morn and even shades are longest; At noon they are or short,... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 524 pages
...shadowes. Follow a shaddow, it still flies you, Seeme to fly, it will pursue : So court a mistrisse, she denies you, Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truely then Stil'd but the shadwoes of us men At morne and even shades are longest, At noone they are,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...is of no consequence to him how long he shall be so, provided he is so to his life's end. — Steek. So court a mistress, she denies you: Let her alone,...she will court you. Say, are not women truly then, Styl'd but the shadows of us men? Ben Anton. MCLXV. It has been said that he who retires to solitude... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...be so, provided he is so to his life's end. — Steele. MCLXiy. Follow a shadow, it still flies you, So court a mistress, she denies you: Let her alone,...she will court you. Say, are not women truly then, Styl'd but the shadows of us men' Ben Jonson. MCLXV. It has been said that he who retires to solitude... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...and happy imitation of particular passages in Catullus."] WOMEN ARE B|T MEN'S SHADOWS. BEX JONSON. Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it,...she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styl'd but the shadows of us men ? At morn and even shades are longest ; At noon they are or short,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...and happy imitation of particular passages in Catullus."] WOMEN ARE BUT MEN'S SHADOWS. BEN JONSON. Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it,...she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styl'd but the shadows of us men ? At morn and even shades are longest ; At noon they are or short,... | |
 | Theocritus - English poetry - 1836 - 450 pages
...Pursues who flies her, her pursuer flies, And moves the land-mark of love's boundaries." — P. 58. " Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it,...you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men."— Jonson. " She moves the stone from the line " literally ; that is, she confounds... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 436 pages
...Pursues who flies her, her pursuer flies, And moves the land-mark of love's boundaries." — P. 58. " Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it,...you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men." — Jonson. " She moves the stone from the line " literally; that is, she confounds... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...much in the world without discovering. Ben Jonson is unjust in attacking only the gentler sex,— " Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it,...pursue : So court a mistress, she denies you, Let her aloiie, she will court you." All artifices are contemptible, but nothing shews more clearly than the... | |
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