 O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong! Whose yielded pride and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion, And drizling teares did shed for pure affection....  Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628 - Side 177redigeret af - 1819Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 518 sider
...weary feet, And licked her lily hands with fawning tongue ; As he her wronged innocence did weet. * Oh, how can Beauty master the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong ! * Such is the lion as pictured by our great poet ; and the mere mention of his name calls up to our... | |
 | Dawn - 1874 - 340 sider
...weary feet, And licked her lily hands with fawning tongue, As he her wronged innocence did weet. Oh, how can beauty master the most strong, And simple...tears did shed for pure affection. ****** The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along as a strong guard Of her chaste person, and a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 sider
...innocence did weet. Oh! how can beauty master the most wrong, And simple truth subdue avenging strong ! Whose yielded pride and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her heart 'gan molt in great compassion, And drizzling tears did shed forpure affection. "The lion, lord of every... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 sider
...how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong 1 Whose yielded pryde and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection. "The Lyon, Lord... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 sider
...how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong ! Whose yielded pryde and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection." I need not draw... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 sider
...weary feet, And licked her lily hands with fawning tongue, As he her wronged innocence did weet. 0 how can beauty master the most strong, And simple...in great compassion. And drizzling tears did shed lor pure affection. The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong guard... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1875 - 292 sider
...her lilly hands with fawning tong, As he her wronged innocence did weet. O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging...Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion, And drizling teares did shed for pure affection. 7 The lyon lord... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 sider
...beanty master the most wrong, And simple truth subdue avenging strong ! Whose yielded pride and prond submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked...in great compassion, And drizzling tears did shed forpure affeetion. "The lion, lord of every beast in field," Quoth she, •'his princely puissance... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 310 sider
...weary feet, And licked her lily hands with fawning tongue ; As he her wronged innocence did weet. O how can beauty master the most strong, And simple...wrong ! Whose yielded pride and proud submission, iStill dreading death, when she had marked long, Her heart 'gan melt in great compassion ; And drizzling... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sider
...overflow with brackish tears, The troublous noise did dull their dainty ears. SPENSER. Her heart did melt in great compassion, And drizzling tears did shed for pure affection. SPENSER. No briny tear has furrow'd her smooth cheek. SIR J. SUCKLING. Endless tears flow down in streams.... | |
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