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 871922 - 355 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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