 Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command To show their passions by their letters. My pen amongst the rest I took, Lest those bright eyes that cannot read Should dart their...  The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior: With a Life - Page 203de Matthew Prior, John Mitford - 1853Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1797 - 454 pages
...AUTHOR THEN FORTY.* I. LORDS, knights, and 'squires, the num'rous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's f fetters, Were summon'd by her high command, To show their passions by their letters. n. My pen among t the rest I took, Lest those bright eyes that cannot read Should dart their kindling... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pages
...wlio always drink; They always talk, who never think. TO A CIÏTLJ) OF QUALITY, FIVE YP.ARS OLD, 1104; THE AUTHOR THEN FORTY. LORDS, knights, and 'squires, the numerous band, That wear tin- fair Miss Mary's tetters, Were sumnion'd by her high command, To show their passions by their... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 506 pages
...always talk, who never think. TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE TKARS OLD, MDCCIV., THE AUTHOR THEN FORTY. 1 LORDS, knights, and squires, the numerous band, That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command, To show their passions by then- letters. 2 My pen among the rest I took,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 832 pages
...; human creature or animal. When the poem was written, the child was five years old and the author forty. Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band...fetters, Were summon'd by her high command To show their passion by their letters. My pen among the rest I took, Lest those bright eyes that cannot read Should... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1865 - 736 pages
...rarely rises above the dignity of the drawing-room : — To a Child of Quality, five years old, 1704 : the author then forty. ' Lords, knights, and 'squires,...band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command To show their passion by their letters, My pen amongst the rest I took,... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 380 pages
...rightly understood, Is only labour to be good. Unknown. ccx. TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD' 1704. THE AUTHOR THEN FORTY. LORDS, knights and squires,...band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command, To show their passions by their letters. My pen amongst the rest I took,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 pages
...; human creature, or animal. When the poem was written, the child was five years old and the author forty. " Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command To show their passion by their letters. My pen among the rest I took,... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 510 pages
...soldier and his wife, in Long Acre, before he went to bed"]. TO A CHILD OF QUALITY FIVE YEARS OLD, 1704, THE AUTHOR THEN FORTY. LORDS, knights, and squires,...band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command To show their passions by their letters. My pen amongst the rest I took,... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 274 pages
...Zoo? J. ASHBY STEKRY. TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD (1704), THE AUTHOR THEN FORTY. m |ORDS, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear...command, To show their passions by their letters. My pen amongst the rest I took, Lest those bright eyes that cannot read Should dart their kindling fires,... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 264 pages
...YEABS OLD (1704), THE AUTHOR THEN FORTY. 'jORDS, knights, and squires, the numerous band That'wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summon'd by her...command, To show their passions by their letters. My pen amongst the rest I took, Should dart their kindling fires, and look The power they have to be obey'd.... | |
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