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" Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life ; Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. "
The Little Book of Society Verse - Page 87
1922 - 355 pages
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The Life of Andrew Marvell

Hartley Coleridge - 1835 - 78 pages
...once our time devour, Than languish in his slow chap'd power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness up into one ball : ' And tear our pleasures...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ON MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. When I beheld the poet blind, yet bold, In slender book his vast design...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...once our time devour, Than languish in his slow chap'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball : And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...our time devour, • Than languish in his slow chap'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball : And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd pow'r.. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness up into one ball ; And tear our pleasures...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run." In Browne's ' Pastorals,' notwithstanding the weakness and prolixity of-kis general plan, there are...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...accumulation of passion bursts its floodgates in the noble lines : — Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball ; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. The following verses, which are less known, are exquisitely elegant...
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The American Whig Review, Volumes 13-14

1851 - 1220 pages
...at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power. Let UH roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball ; And tear our pleasures...with rough strife Through the iron gates of life. Thui, though we cannot make our tun Stand iltll, yet we will mate him run." In some lines entitled...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...time devour, Than languish in his slow chap'd pow'r. 108 Dryden. Let us roll all onr strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball : And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make...
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The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author

Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 408 pages
...strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life ; Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. THE UNFORTUNATE LOVER. ALAS ! how pleasant are their days, With whom the infant love yet plays ! Sorted...
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The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author

Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 420 pages
...once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chaped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough tho iron gates of life ; Thus, though wo cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness up into one ball ; And tear our pleasures wilh rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run." In Browne's ' Pastorals,' notwithstanding the weakness and prolixity of his general plan, there are...
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