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" ... tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home !... "
An Essay on the Nature of the English Verse: With Directions for Reading Poetry - Page 19
by Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 134 pages
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Odes and Epodes

Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...mihi cum venerit hora, \ Te teneam moriens deficiente manu; 'Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; | And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : | For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, | As he was a poet sublimer than me' (Prior, A Better Answer). ODE X. An...
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Horace: Odes and Epodes

Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...mihi cum veaerit hora, \ Te teneam mor lens deficiente manu; 'Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; | And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : | For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, | As he was a poet sublimer than me' (Prior, A Better Answer). ODE X. An...
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Standard English Poems: Spenser to Tennyson

1899 - 816 pages
...in my way: They were but my visits, but thou art my home. 25 Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war; And let us like Horace and Lydia agree : For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. Josepb H&biscm 1672-1719 ODE THE SPACIOUS...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 414 pages
...way, They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, 5 And let us like Horace and Lydia agree: For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas...
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The English Poets

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 pages
...saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us like Horace and Lydia agree : For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. t A SIMILE. Dear Thomas, did'st thou...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 23

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 pages
...Lubin fears that he shall die, His wife that he may live.' " " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree : For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas...
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Forms of English Poetry

Charles Frederick Johnson - 1904 - 370 pages
...saw in my way, They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish dear child, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree, For thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me. The anapests give a movement precisely...
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Poems on Several Occasions

Matthew Prior - 1905 - 404 pages
...my Way : They were but my Visits ; but 'Thou art my Home. VII. Then finish, Dear CLOE, this Pastoral War; And let us like HORACE and LYDIA agree : For Thou art a Girl as much brighter than Her, As He was a Poet sublimer than Me. PALLAS and VENUS. AN EPIGRAM. THE TROJAN...
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The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

John Dennis - 1906 - 286 pages
...in ray way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home. ' Then finish, dear Cloe, this pastoral war, And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me.' " The grammatical lapse in these last...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...way; They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war; 35 And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. FOR MY OWN MONUMENT As doctors give physic...
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