 Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea ; While gentle zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And fortune's favour fills the swelling sails ; But would forsake the ship, and make the shore, When the winds whistle, and...  Marriage - Page 303by Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...series of metaphors, all borrowed from the sea, and contrasting prosperous with adverse fortune. " Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea, While gentle zephyrs play in prosp'rous gales, And Fortune's favor fills the swelling... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...woods to rovt! EMMA. Thy rise of fortune did I only wed, From its decline determin'd to recede ; Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea ; While gentle Zephyrs play in prosperous gales ; And Fortune's favour fills the swelling... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...Henry and Emma ; and it comes naturally from the lips of an enamoured and virtuous female.... " Did I but purpose to embark with thee " On the smooth surface of a summer's sea, " While gentle zephyrs play with prosperous gales, " And fortune's favour fills the swelling... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...woods to rove? Emma. Thy rise of fortune did I only wed, From its decline determin'd to recede; Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea, While gentle zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And Fortune's favour fills the swelling... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...woods to rove ? EMMA. Thy rise of fortune did I only wed, From its decline determin'd to recede J Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea, While gentle zephyrs play in prosp'rous gales, And Fortune's favour fills the swelling... | |
 | Poetical narratives - English poetry - 1810 - 330 pages
...woods to rove ? EMMA. Thy rise of fortune did I only wed, From its decline determin'd to recede ? Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea, While gentle zephyrs play in prosp'rous gales, And Fortune's favour fills the swelling... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...condemn'd in woodi to rove? Thy rise of fortune did I only wed, From its decline dttennin'd to recede ; Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea ; While gentle Zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And Fortune's favour fills the swelling... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...Henry and Kinma, Emma, in the following allegorical manner, describes her constancy to Henry : Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea, While genlle zephyrs play with prosperous gales, And fortune's favour fills the swelling'... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...rise of fortune did I only wed, From it's decline determin'd to recede ? Did I but purpose to emhark with thee, On the smooth surface of a summer sea ;...zephyrs play in prosp'rous gales, And Fortune's favour tills the swelling sails; But would forsake the ship, and make the shore. When the winds whistle and... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 - 1816 - 354 pages
...continued to furnish them with the means of mirth until an early hour in the next morning. CHAPTER X. Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer sea, And would forsake the skiff and make the shore When the winds whistle and the tempests roar ? PRIOR.... | |
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