 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 402 pages
...and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction : — " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain, And thrice ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn." I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles Skinner Matthews,... | |
 | 1866 - 426 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. O Cynthia ! why so pale ? Dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbour ? Grieve to see... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...the bounties of an hour. Night \. Line 67. To waft a feather or to drown a fly. Night \. Line 154. Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain : And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. Night i. Line 212. Be wise to-day ; 't is madness to defer.* Night i. Line 390. Procrastination... | |
 | William Hudson - 1870 - 184 pages
...Job. Think of the experience which an English poet, apostrophising Death, thus describes : — '• " Insatiate archer ! Could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn." The same author says also, "Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes." A sad case of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 336 pages
...and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction :— " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain, And thrice ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles Skinner Matthews,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...the hounties of an hour. Night i. Line 67. To waft a feather or to drown a fly. Night i. Line 1 54. Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. N1ght i. Line 212. Be wise to-day ; 't is madness to defer.1 Night i. Line 390. 1... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...the bounties of an hour. Night i. Line 67. To waft a feather or to drown a fly. Night i. Line 154. Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain : And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. Night i. Line 212. Be wise to-day ; 't is madness to defer.1 Night i. Line 390. Procrastination... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 294 pages
...supposed to have inspired " The Complaint," which forms the three first books of the " Night Thoughts :" "Insatiate archer, could not one suffice? Thy shaft...peace was slain : And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." Since we find Young departing from the truth of dates, in order to heighten the effect... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...1'oor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. Line 07. To waft a feather or to drown a fly. Line 154. Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. Lint 212. Bo wise to-day ; 't is madness to defer.1 Line 390. Procrastination is the... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1883 - 300 pages
...supposed to have inspired " The Complaint," which forms the three first books of the " Night Thoughts :" "Insatiate archer, could not one suffice? Thy shaft...peace was slain : And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." Since we find Young departing from the truth of dates, in order to heighten the effect... | |
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Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. 
