...I see ; Nor envy them that heaven I lose for thee. How oft, when press'd to marriage, liave I said, ce of all the absolute submission due to Pro* vidcnce, both as to our prêtent ала tics', Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame,...

...When maistery cometh, the god of love anone Betith his winges, and farevell he is gone." CHAUCER. " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." POPI. " Perdy," l said Britomart, " the choise-is hard ! But what reward had he that overcame ? " "...

...passion, she refused to marry her beloved Abelard : * How oft, when pressed to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made :...ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.' But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit, springing...

...marry her beloved Abelard : ' How oft, when pressed to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws tut those which love has made : Love, free as air, at...ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.' But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit, springing...

...Abelnrd : ' How oft, when pressed to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which Jove has made: Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.' But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit, springing...

...spoken in the language of another heroine : — " Curse on all tics but those which love has made I Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies." More happy had it been for her, had she acted on a more sacred principle, and said — Curse on all...

...be happy with him I adore,— there to find that bliss which flies wedded love: as Pope says:— ' Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.' You, my dear girl, will meet the destiny that awaits most girls of your beauty and shining parts. You...

...passage in his Hudibrat, part iii. c. 1. lines 563 to 660. Pope has made use of Chaucer more literally. "Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." EloiSe to Abtlard. Warburton, in a note on these lines, alludes to this " imitation" of Chaucer, and...

...saints I see, Nor envy them that Heaven I lose for thee. How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, kin honor, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before true passion all those...

...interrupting me, ' I thought you superior to such vulgar preiudices. I thought you felt with me that — " Love free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." Think of our dearer union of souls, our more lassionate, more enduring ecstasy — think of ,he joy...