 | James Logie Robertson - English literature - 1894 - 388 pages
...on my way — They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Cloe, this pastoral war ; And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." Style and humour are happily blended in his Ballad of the Thicf and the Cordelicr.... | |
 | William Lennie - English language - 1894 - 272 pages
...can judge, he is equal to most of us in general information. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than she,w As he was a poet sublimer than /.28 In the mind of man there are many more shining qualities... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; And let us like Horace and Lydia agree : For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. A SIMILE. Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There,... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 pages
...thy hair all uncurled : . . -^> 4& & ?<&&' \ WILLIAM AND MARY Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war; And let us, like Horace and Lydia agree : For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. CCXIV. SONG. Matthno Prior, FALSE though she be to me and love, I'll ne'er pursue... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home. * Then finish, dear Cloe, this pastoral war, And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree ; For...a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me.' " The grammatical lapse in these last two lines," says Mr. Austin Dobson, "perhaps... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 496 pages
...saw in my way, They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war; And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree : For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. A SIMILE DEAR Thomas, didst thou never pop Thy head into a tinman's shop? There,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 642 pages
...saw in my way, They were but my visits, but thou art my home. Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war; And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree: For...a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. A SIMILE DEAR Thomas, didst thou never pop Thy head into a tinman's shop ? There,... | |
 | Horace - Latin language - 1898 - 538 pages
...mihi cum veaerit hora, \ Te teneam mor lens deficiente manu; 'Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; | And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree :...girl as much brighter than her, | As he was a poet sublimer than me' (Prior, A Better Answer). ODE X. An imitation of the тгapew\avaiвvpov, or lament... | |
 | Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...mihi cum venerit hora, \ Te teneam moriens deficiente manu; 'Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war ; | And let us, like Horace and Lydia, agree :...girl as much brighter than her, | As he was a poet sublimer than me' (Prior, A Better Answer). ODE X. An imitation of the тгapaк\avaísvpov, or lament... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 824 pages
...They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloo, this pastoral war, And let ui like Horace and Lydia agree : For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me." If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior "! Love and pleasure find... | |
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... tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home !... 
