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" Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art: I court others in verse; but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies; but thou hast my heart. "
The Works of the English Poets: Prior - Page 129
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 pages
...life ! must one swear to the truth of a song ? What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art : I court others in verse ; but I love thee in prose : 15 And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart. The god of...
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An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1909 - 404 pages
...exhibits the spirit and style of society verse : " What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art : I court others in verse; but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies; but thou hast my heart." Examples showing...
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The Pageant of English Poetry

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pages
...let me never see. M. PRIOR. 759. NATURE AND ART WHAT I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art : I court others in verse — but I love thee in prose ; And they have my whimsies — but thou hast my heart. The God...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? What I speak, my fair Cloe, and what I write, shows verse; but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies; but thou hast my heart. 16 The god of us...
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Lyrical Verse, Selected and Edited, Volume 2

Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 240 pages
...life ! must one swear to the truth of a song? What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art : I court others in verse ; but I love thee in prose : And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart. The god of us...
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The Vista of English Verse

1911 - 784 pages
...life! must one swear to the truth of a song ? What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art : I court others in verse; but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies ; but thou hast my heart. The god cf us...
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Poems of love, pt. 1

1912 - 408 pages
...Od's life! must one swear to the truth of a song? What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art: I court others in verse; but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies; but thou hast my heart. The god of us verse-men...
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English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 pages
...Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows "O the depth of the riches both of The order of all the words in verse; but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies; but thou hast my heart. 16 The god of us...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 pages
...gaiety, his unaffected grace, his easy humanity : " What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art ; I court others in verse, but I love thee in prose, And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart. " iv GAY 135 There...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 pages
...life ! must one swear to the truth of a song ? What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art: I court others in verse, but I love thee in prose; And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart. The god of us verse-men...
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