 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancor wreaked on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. 0 Cynthia ! why so pale ? Dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbor ? Grieve to see thy... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancor wreaked on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. 0 Cynthia ! why so pale ? Dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbor ? Grieve to see thy... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 pages
...! etc. Stanza xci. line 1. 18. 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." Night Thor1ghts : The Complaint, Night i. (London, 1825, p. 5). I should have ventured... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. Line sr. 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. Line 212. Be wise to-day ; 't is madness to defer.8 Line 390. I Written in the time... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 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. James Hervey (1714-1758) was appointed in 1740 curate of Bideford in North Devon.... | |
 | 1903
...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. James Hervey (1714-1758) was appointed in 1740 curate of Bideford in North Devon.... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pages
...plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wrcak'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. James Hervey (1714-1758) was appointed in 1740 curate of Bideford in North Devon.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1904 - 588 pages
...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 filled her horn." Since we find Young departing from the truth of dates, in order to heighten the effect... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 584 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 fil1'd her horn." Night Thoughts ; The Complaint, Night i. (London, 1825, p. 5). I should have ventured... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...suddenly and how nearly together the deaths of the three persons whom he laments happened, none who has read the Night Thoughts (and who has not read...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." To the sorrow Young felt at his losses we are indebted for these 1 The Irish Peerage,... | |
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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. 
