 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 366 pages
...Nay, my dear madam, but I count it gain.' " ' The world will blame us sure, if we be still.'— r " ' And, if we stir, you may be sure it will.' " ' Not...Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white -r " The blood once fervid now to cool began, " And Time's strong pressure to subdue the man : " I... | |
 | James Smith - 1833 - 218 pages
...the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — *' Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white; Gradual... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 334 pages
...the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — ' Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks ; In June 1825, he thus writes from Mr. Hoare's villa at Hampstead : — " Hampstead, June, 1825. "... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 352 pages
...the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — ' Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white; Gradual... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1838 - 356 pages
...the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines: — ' Six years had pass*d, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ;... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 pages
...Crabbe, one of the witty authors of the Rejected Addresses quoted the lines, — " Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ;... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 346 pages
...the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — ' Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ;... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 pages
...Crabhe, one of the witty authors of the Rejected Addresses quoted the lines,— " Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ;... | |
 | 1862 - 512 pages
...' Does reason sanction what our hearts desire?'" From Tairs. APPROACH OF AHE. Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his...once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, display 'd th' encroaching white; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1842 - 964 pages
...Elizabeth. " Dicite lo Paean," therefore — " et Zo bis dicite Paean :"CHAPTER XII. Six yean had pass'd and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his...once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, display 'd th' encroaching white. The blood once fervid now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
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I rode or walk'd as I was wont before, " But now the bounding spirit was no more ; " A moderate pace would now my body heat, " A walk of moderate length distress my feet. 
