AH how sweet it is to love, Ah how gay is young desire ! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach love's fire! Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. Sighs, which are from lovers blown, Do but gently heave the heart:... The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works - Page 422by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883Full view - About this book
| Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 lehte
...need fear That hath an ear ? Down let him lie, And slumbering die, And change his soul tor harmony. Ah, how sweet it is to love ! Ah, how gay is young...are from lovers blown, Do but gently heave the heart ; E'en rhe tears they shed alone, Cure, like trickling balm, their smart. Lovers, when they lose their... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 lehte
...comes the lady, let her witness it. SHAKESPEARE. AH, HOW SWEET. FROM " TYRANNIC LOVE," ACT IV. SC. z. are sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. fiSighs which are from lovers blown Do hut gently heave... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 lehte
...you'll ne'er stop a lover, He will find out his way. AUTHOR UNKNOWN. AH, HOW SWEET IT is то LOVE: , As if a cavern was suddenly hollow'd ; And the Piper...children follow'd, And when all were in to the very las 1 Paine of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. Sighs which are from lovers blown Do but... | |
| 1883 - 762 lehte
...these rivulets, viz. Dryden's song of Damilcar, in Act iv. of his Tyrannic Love, 1669. It began thus : Ah ! how sweet it is to Love ! Ah ! how gay is young...pains we prove, When we first approach Love's fire ! Fains of Love be sweeter far, Than all other pleasures are. [The cut above belongs to "The Enchanted... | |
| Arthur Henry Bullen - 1889 - 168 lehte
...to fix her beams which are More bright and large than his.1 From JOHN DRYDEN'S Tyrannic Love, 1670. AH how sweet it is to love ! •**• Ah how gay is...are from lovers blown Do but gently heave the heart : Ev'n the tears they shed alone, Cure, like trickling balm, their smart : Lovers, when they lose their... | |
| 1890 - 880 lehte
...life-and-death struggle in that grim arena where passion and pain and sorrow contend for mastery. " Ah ! how sweet it is to love ! Ah ! how gay is young desire ! " sang Dryden, who, in truth, was neither sweet nor gay in his amorous outpourings, but who merely... | |
| Agnes Repplier - 1891 - 258 lehte
...life-and-death struggle in that grim arena where passion and pain and sorrow contend for mastery. " Ah ! how sweet it is to love ! Ah ! how gay is young desire ! " sang Dryden, who, in truth, was neither sweet nor gay in his amorous outpourings, but who merely... | |
| Agnes Repplier - 1891 - 258 lehte
...life-and-death struggle in that grim arena where passion and pain and sorrow contend for mastery. ' ' All ! how sweet it is to love ! Ah ! how gay is young desire I " sang Dryden, who, in truth, was neither sweet nor gay in his amorous outpourings, but who merely... | |
| 1893 - 260 lehte
...deck and crown thy head with bays And love thee more and more. MARQUIS of MONTROSE. AH! HOW SWEET! Ah, how sweet it is to love ! Ah, how gay is young...pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire : TO ELECTBA. 137 Pains of love are sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. Sighs which are from... | |
| Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 lehte
...and sickens at the sight of day. Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes AH, HOW SWEET! AH, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young...When we first approach love's fire! Pains of love are sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. Sighs which are from lovers blown Do but gently heave... | |
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