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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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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

1918 - 2030 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 Studies, Volumes 6-7

Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1924 - 494 pages
...Odds life I must one swear to the truth of a song ? What I speak my fair Cloe, 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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More Essays on Books

Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1921 - 204 pages
...poetry at play, and only a poet can write it. 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. This is a light...
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The Oral Study of Literature

Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...SEAMAN — Borrowed Plumes * 86. 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 of...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780)

Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 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." v ', &>-•-}...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...Life ! must one swear to the Truth of a Song ? What I speak, my fair CLOE, 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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Seventeenth Century Lyrics from the Original Texts

Norman Ault - 1928 - 544 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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An Anthology of World Poetry

Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 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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Littell's Living Age, Volume 270

1911 - 944 pages
...poetry at play, and only a poet can write It. 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 Proee: And They have my Whimsies; but Thou hast my Heart. This Is the light...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...a little like folks of this world. (1. 1-4) 2 What I speak, my fair Chloc, and what I write, shows hrough his castle wall, and — farewell, king! (HI, ii) 90 Go bi verse, but I love thee in prose; And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart. (1. 13-16) AWP;...
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