 Not on the cross my eyes were fix'd, but you : Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. Come ! with thy looks, thy words, relieve my woe ; Those still at least are left thee to bestow.  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 121852Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 lehte
...with cold lips I kiss'd the sacred veil, id The shrines all trembled, and the lamps grew pale ; Heav'n scarce believ'd the conquest it survey'd, And saints with wonder heard the vows I made. Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew, 115 Not on the Cross my eyes were fix'd, but you: Not grace,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 lehte
...yon altar's foot we lay ? Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell ? As with cold lips I kiss'd the sacred veil, 1 1 1 The shrines all trembled, and the lamps grew pale : Heaven scarce believ'd the conquest it survey'd,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 lehte
...hundred and eighteen, which are highly beautiful, particularly these circumstances attending the rite As with cold lips I kiss'd the sacred veil, The shrines all trembled, and the lamps grew pale ! These two circumstances are fancied with equal force and propriety ; and this supposed prognostic... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 lehte
...I kiss'd the sacred veil, The shrines all tremhled, and the lamps grew pale: Heav'n scarce heliev'd the conquest it survey*d, And saints with wonder heard the vows I made. Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew, Not on the cross my eyes were fix'd, hut you ; Not grace,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 lehte
...lay? Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewel ? As with cold lips I kiss'd the sacred veil, The shrines...survey'd, And saints with wonder heard the vows I made. Yet -then, to those dread altars as I drew, Rot on the cross my eyes were fix'd, but you : Not grace,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 416 lehte
...Enter ROSA, reading. Rosa. Canst thou forget, what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell! As with cold lips I kiss'd the...The shrines all trembled, and the lamps grew pale. Poor Eloisa in her cloister, spoke my sentiments ! — I begin to repent my elopement. — By this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 lehte
...altar's foot we lay J -, Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell ? As with cold lips I kiss'd the...The shrines all trembled, and the lamps grew pale ; Heav'n scarce believ'd the conquest it snrvey'd, And saints with wonder heard the vows I made. Yet... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 422 lehte
...Enter ROSA, reading. Rosa. Canst thou forget, what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell! As with cold lips I kiss'd the sacred veil, The shrines aU trembled, and the lamps grew pale. AIR. ROSA. Oh, ling'ring time ! why with us stay, When absent... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 lehte
...yon altar's foot we lay P Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I hade the world farewell > As with cold lips I kiss'd the sacred veil, ''in- slu iocs all trembled, and the lamps grew pale : Heav'n scarce believ'd the conquest it sarvey'd,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 296 lehte
...yon altar's foot we lay ? Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell? As with cold lips I kiss'd the...The shrines all trembled, and the lamps grew pale: Heav'n scarce believ'd the conquest it survey'd, And Saints with wonder heard the vows I made. Yet... | |
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