 | David Garrick - English drama - 1798 - 318 pages
...Forgetting any other home but this. Jul. 'Tis. almost morning. I would have thee gone*, "And yet no further than a wanton's 'bird,. That lets it hop a little from her hand, ,. And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So living-jealous of his liberty. Rom, I would 1 were... | |
 | David Garrick - 1798 - 318 pages
...Forgetting any other home but this. Jul. *Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, And with a siik thread plucks it back again, So living-jealous of his liberty. Rom* I would I were... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...what is most familiar to us, soonest engages our • I would have thee gone, , ; And yet no further than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread pulls it back again, So loving jealous of its... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 794 pages
...[boppatt, Sax. happen, Dutch.] T. To jump; to fkip lightly. — I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, And with a filk thread plucks it back again. Sbakefpcare. Go, top me over every kennel home ; For you... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...forget, Forgetting any other home but this. Jul. Tis almost morning, I would have thee gone, And yet not farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, And with a silk thread pulls it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. Rom. I would I were thy... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 418 pages
...forget, Forgetting any other home but this. Jul. Tis almost morning, I would have thee gone, And yet not farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, And with a silk thread pulls it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. Rom. I would I were thy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 484 pages
...were playing with a child. So, in Romeo and Juliet : " I would have thee gone, " And yet no further than a wanton's bird, " That' lets it hop a little from her hand, " And with a silk thread pulls it back again." Ritson. A passage in Kmg John shows that wanton here... | |
 | DR. JOHNSON - 1812 - 480 pages
...call thee back. Mar.jun. Let me here stay till thou remember'st why. Lav. The morning's breaking ; I would have thee gone ; And yet no farther than a...wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, To pull it by its fetters back again. Mar.jun. Would I were thine. . • V Lav. Indeed and so would... | |
 | Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton - 1813 - 420 pages
...fail: 'tis twenty years till then. I have forgot why I did call thee back. Lav. The morning's breaking; I would have thee gone; And yet no farther than a...wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, To pull it by it's fetters back again. Mar.jun. Let me here stay till thou remember'st why. Lav. Indeed... | |
 | Thomas Otway - 1813 - 416 pages
...call thee back. Mar.jun. Let me here stay till thou remember'st why. Lav. The morning's breaking ; I would have thee gone ; And yet no farther than a...wanton's bird. That lets it hop a little from her hand, To pull it by it's fetters back again. Mar.jun. Would I were thine ! Lav. Indeed and so would I : Yet... | |
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Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone; And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. 
