 Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe,...  Rosamund Gray, essays, letters, and poems - Sida 292efter Charles Lamb - 1857Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sidor
...Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe, — Not that she is truly so, But no other...rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or, as men, constrain'd to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow 's at the height, Lose discrimination... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 sidor
...Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe — Not that she is truly so, But no other...pain or not. Or, as men, constrained to part With what 's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination quite, And... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 sidor
...mermaid, devil, Ethiop, wench, and blackamoor, Monkey, ape, and twenty more ; Friendly trait'ress, loving foe—- Not that she is truly so, But no other...rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or, as men constrain'd to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 sidor
...foe. Not that she is truly so, But no oi^er way they know A contenttient to express Borders so up^n excess, That they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not." Thus, in the very excess of affection to his sister, whom hfl loved above all else on earth, he would... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - 700 sidor
...Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe— Not that she is truly so, But no other...Lose discrimination quite, And their hasty wrath let iall, To appease their frantic gall, On the darling thing whatever, Whence they feel it death to sever,... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - 720 sidor
...Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe — Not that she is truly so, But no other...rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or, as men, constrain'd to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow 's at the height, Lose discrimination... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 628 sidor
...hyena, mermaid, devil, Ethiop, wench, and blackamoor, Monkey, ape, and twenty more, Friendly traitress, loving foe. Not that she is truly so, But no other...they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not." Thus, in the very excess of affection to his sister, whom he loved above all else on earth, he would... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1858 - 586 sidor
...Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe,— Not that she is truly so, But no other...rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or, as men, constrain'd to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination... | |
 | 1858 - 456 sidor
...Witch, hyena, mermaid, devil ;" because they know no other way to express a joy and a love so acute that "They do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not." Longfellow's irony is not like this. It has no similarity to that Neapolitan familiarity with the objects... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1864 - 552 sidor
...Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more; Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe,— Not that she is truly so, But no other...rightly wot Whether it be pain or not. Or, as men, constraint to part With what's nearest to their heart, While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination... | |
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