 Hervey, would you know the passion, You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. " In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.  The Quarterly review - Page 5051848Full view - About this book
 | Anthologies - 1890 - 398 pages
...passion You have kindled in my breast, Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover, True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." 1 In Dodsley's Collection, iv. 223, the same stanzas are given, headed " To Lady... | |
 | 1895 - 756 pages
...passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination" that by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover — True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll beet discover All the power of your own. Lepel Henry Griffin was destined for the diplomatic service,... | |
 | William Henry Wilkins - Great Britain - 1901 - 460 pages
...passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own. Gay wrote of her : — Youth's youngest daughter, sweet Lepel. Miss Lepel was married... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 426 pages
...passion, You have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. " In my silence see the lover; True love is by silence known; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own." In noticing the various compliments paid to Lady Hervey by her contemporaries,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 436 pages
...passion, You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. " In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own." In noticing the various compliments paid to Lady Hervey by her contemporaries,... | |
 | Caesar Litton Falkiner - Ireland - 1902 - 418 pages
...passion You have kindled in my breast, Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. ' In my silence see the lover — True love is by silence...you'll best discover All the powers of your own.' 1 Chesterfield's Letters, ii. 40. influence on his career — viz. his love of Continental life and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 pages
...passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. " In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." The exile came to an end, however. It had provided Voltaire with a good sum of... | |
 | Georg Brandes - Authors, French - 1916 - 504 pages
...passion Vou have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be express'd. In my silence see the lover; True love is by silence known, In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. Det er saare velment; men Voltaires franske Vers er alligevel at foretrække. Ikke... | |
 | Archibald Ballantyne - 1919 - 358 pages
...passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be express'd. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own.1 These are not quite the only English lines which Voltaire ventured to write. In... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - Great Britain - 1924 - 354 pages
...passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. " In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." Even Charles Churchill, that most rancorous of satirists, had a kindly word for... | |
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