 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Heaven and Home. To a Skylark. The Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. Laodamia. Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the...love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. ibid. Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...Gods to us are merciful, and they Yet further may relent: for mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over Sun and star,...though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. But if thou go'st, I follow—" " Peace! " he said. She look'd upon him and was calm'd and cheer'd;... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...gods to us are merciful, and they Yet further may relent ; for mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distressed, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. " But if thou goest, I follow —... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...to us are merciful ; and they Yet further may relent ; for mightier far Thrin strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distressed, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. ' But if thou goest, I follow.'... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...gods to us are merciful, and they Yet further may relent ; for mightier far Than strength of nerve and scalp the accents knew, The joyous wolf from covert drew, The exulting eagle scre district, [breast. And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's " But if thou goest, I follow." "Peace!''... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1877 - 328 pages
...instances have been known to happen — open the minds of susceptible demoiselles to the truth that— " Mightier far, Than strength of nerve or sinew, or...oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat is feeble woman's breast," In sober earnest, strange as it may appear, Gussie Cuthbert — handsome... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...— Man's LOVE is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. — BYRON, Don Juan. — Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun aud star, Is LOVE, though oft to agony distrest And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...! I whom nor avarice nor pleasures move, Yet must myself be made a slave to love. WALSH. Discreet. Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the...favourite seat be feeble woman's breast, WORDSWORTH. Lndies, whose love is constant as the wind; Cits, who prefer a guinea to mankind. YOUNG. The young... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...— Man's LOVE is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. — BYRON, Don Juan. — Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the...LOVE, though oft to agony distrest And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. WORDSWORTH, Laodamia. — None without hope e'er loved the... | |
 | 1895 - 702 pages
...Author of " Sketch of Dr. Norman Macleod," " Sermons on Scottish Song," " The Prince's Charm," &c. "Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun or star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast."... | |
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Yet further may relent : for mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. But if thou goest, I follow... 
