 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Crime - 1833 - 246 pages
...most sweetly. You too, had you heard him, would have listened a second tune;— THE BUCCANEER. 41 i '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. ' Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore— I could not... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, To wane and armes I ttie. True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with...such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. [" *Lovelace," says Wood " made his amours to a gentlewoman... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...sweet, I am unkinde, That from the nunuerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with...such, As you too shall adore . I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. THE SCRUTINIE. RICHARD LOVELACE. Why should you swear I am... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast, and quiet minde To warre and arms I flie. True : a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with...such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. THE SCRUTINY. WHY should you sweare I am forsworn ? Since... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...modern verse. Another specimen, and let it be from Lovelace— like Carew, a courtier and cavalier — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery...I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first fu* in the field ; And with a stronger f.iith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast, and quiet minde To warre and arms I flie. True : a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with...faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstaney is such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour... | |
 | 1837 - 574 pages
...of martial spirit about the following that cannot be well surpassed. To LuCASTA. Going to the wars. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. The devotedness of soul with which he embraces " A sword, a horse, a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...tender, — as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 pages
...joining the army, he wrote that beautiful song to his mistress, which has been so often quoted, — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear ! so much, Lov'd I not honour more. The rest of his life was a series of the most cruel misfortunes. He... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...tender, — as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous... | |
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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.... 
