 | St. George Tucker - Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 - 1857 - 370 pages
...now I chase, The first foe in the field, And with a stronger faith embrace The sword, the horse, the shield. "Yet, this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I had not loved thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more !" " Yes," repeated the old patriot, as... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...— TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly....too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, l.ov ,1 I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...of those glorious lines of Lovelace in reply to a reproach on account of absence caused by duty : " Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1858 - 536 pages
...sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As yon too shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear ! so much, Loy'd I not honor more. The rest of his... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 366 pages
...a reproach on account of absence caused by duty i u Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, snail adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...soldier's and the lover's duty: — " Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly...."Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore : / could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." This soldier's services in the cause... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...cummings To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly....so much. Loved I not honour more. Richard Lovelace Demetrius fled the fight in fear. And lost his weapons. Once at home, His mother stabbed him with a... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...unkind. That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. (1. 1—4) 9 2 . much, Loved I not honor more. (1. 9—12) AWP; CaPo; ELP; EnLoPo; FaBV; FaFP; FF; FPL; GBL; GTBS; GTBS-P;... | |
 | Henry John Whitfeld - Isles of Scilly (England) - 1852 - 240 pages
...Cavalier, faithful to death, and singing to his mistress, — " Yet this inconstancy is such As then, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." and the sullen Puritan, half hypocrite and half fanatic — and then the dim procession disappears,... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...the military conflict is accommodated and, in some ways, set aside by Lovelace: True; a new Mistresse now I chase, The first Foe in the Field; And with a stronger Faith imbrace A Sword, a Horse, a Shield. Carew at the end of 'To my friend GN from Wrest', as we have seen,... | |
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GOING TO THE WARS 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.... 
