 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
 | 1848 - 638 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 '11 best discover All the powers of your own." Lady Hervey was a woman of both solid and brilliant... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 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. In Dodsley'a "Collection" these lines are stated to have been addressed to Lady... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 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 : 111 my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. In Dodsley's " Collection " these lines... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 768 pages
...You have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination, That by words can be express' d. In iny silence see the lover, True love is by silence known : In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. In Dodsley's " Collection " these lines are stated to have been addressed to Lady... | |
 | Voltaire - 1877 - 656 pages
...passion You have kindled in my brcast? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be express'd. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known : 1. Quand je communiquai ces vers en 1819, je croyais, d'après M. Hennct, auteur de la Poétique... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads - 1878 - 764 pages
...passion You have kindled in my breast i1 Trifling is the inclination That by words can be express'd. In my silence see the Lover ; True Love is by silence...eyes you'll best discover All the powers of your own. Sir Robert Walpole had courted her, and his son Horace lamented her death, which happened so late as... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads, English - 1878 - 712 pages
...kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be express'd. In my silence sco the Lover ; True Love is by silence known ; In my...eyes you'll best discover All the powers of your own. Sir Robert Walpole had courted her, and his son Horace lamented her death, which happened so late as... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 884 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... | |
 | Anthologies - 1890 - 444 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 Dodslcy's Collection, iv. 223, the same stanzas are given, headed "To Lady... | |
 | James Parton - 1892 - 652 pages
...passion Yon have kindled iu 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 '11 best discover All the power of yonr own. This Laura Harley was the wife of an English merchant,... | |
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