 | Robert Southey - 1815
...if the strain offend, O Lady fair, Blame thou the theme, not me ! . . Then to the harp He sung, . . Three things a wise man will not trust, The Wind,...Sunshine of an April day, And Woman's plighted faith. I have beheld The Weathercock upon the steeple point Steady from morn till eve ; and I have seen The... | |
 | Theresa (fict. name.) - 1815
...poor humanity is doomed to taste of. . CHAP. CHAP. VI . ' Ot* fir! *£<r. o EURIPIDES Iphigenia in AaL Three things a wise man will not trust — The wind,...sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. I have beheld The weathercock upon the steeple's point, Steady from noon till eve ; and I have seen The... | |
 | 1819
...goodness seldom keeps its ground, against laughter, flattery, or fashion." Johnson's " Rambler." " Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind,...sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. 1 have beheld, The weathercock upon the steeple's point [seen Steady from morn to eve, and I have The... | |
 | British poets - 1824
...tell their beads, And when the wicked think of, they do triumph ; Canst thou encounter this ? Hid. Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind,...sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. I have beheld The weathercock upon the steeple point Steady from morn till eve, and I have seen The bees... | |
 | Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard - 1828 - 200 sider
...if the strain offend, oh lady fair, Blame thou the theme, not me ! — then to the harp He sung, — "Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind,...sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. I have beheld The weathercock upon the steeple point Steady from morn till eve, antl I have seen The... | |
 | 1829
...absence after what has justpassed ; and then, farewell for eter, .Italy!" CHAPTER XXVI. Three-things a wise man will not trust : — The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. s I have beheld The weathercock upon the steeple point, Steady from morn till eve ; and I have seen... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838
...But if the strain offend, O Lady fair, Blame thou the theme, not me !.. Then to the harp He sung,.. Three things a wise man will not trust, The Wind,...Sunshine of an April day, And Woman's plighted faith. I have beheld The Weathercock upon the steeple-point Steady from morn till eve; and I have seen AA 3... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 810 sider
...fair, Blame thou the theme, not me ! — Then to the harp He sung, — Three things a wise man will not The Wind, the Sunshine of an April day, And Woman's plighted faith. I have beheld The Weathercock upon the steeple-point Steady from morn till eve ; and I have seen The... | |
 | 1847 - 506 sider
...only teach my heart Fonder, warmer to regret thee, Lovely, gentle as thou alt '. MOORE. 12. There are three things a wise man will not trust : The wind,...sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. SoCTHEY. 13. Tell her I 'll love her while the clouds drop rain, Or while there 's water in the pathless... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1847
...passes for a second Solomon," and she playfully and pointedly repeated a passage from Aladoc. •• Three things a wise man will not trust ; The wind — the sunshine of an April morn — And woman's plighted faith. I have beheld The weathercock upon the steeple's point Steady... | |
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Three things a wise man will not trust, — The Wind, the Sunshine of an April day, And Woman's plighted faith. 
