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" is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a toy: Of women-kind such indeed is the love, Or the word love abused ; Under which many childish desires And conceits are excused : But true love is a durable "
The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works - Page 700
by Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1860 - 582 pages
...trustless joys; He is wonne with a world of deapayre, And is lost with atoye. “Of women kynde niche indeed is the love, Or the word love abused, Under which many childish devyces And coaceytes are excused. * Very similar are Raleigh's expressions on thissubject in his Instructions...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1860 - 568 pages
...trustless joye; He is wonne with a world of despayre, And is lost with a toye. " Of women kynde suche indeed is the love, Or the word love abused, Under which many childish devyces And conceytes are excused. * Very similar are Raleigh's expressions on this subjei t in Ait...
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The Courtly Poets from Raleigh to Montrose

Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - English poetry - 1870 - 322 pages
...when he list, And in faith never fast. ¿Iis desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a...And conceits are excused. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. Sat....
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The Courtly Poets from Raleigh to Montrose

Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - English poetry - 1870 - 320 pages
...when he list, And in faith never fast. His desire is a dureless eontent, And a trustless joy ; « He is won with a world of despair. And is lost with a toy. Of womenkind sueh indeed is the love, Or the word love abused, Under whieh many ehildish desires And eoneeits are...
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The poems of sir Walter Raleigh collected and authenticated with ..., Issue 830

sir Walter Ralegh - 1875 - 316 pages
...deaf when he list, And in faith never fast. His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a...And conceits are excused. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. SB. WR...
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The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: Collected and Authenticated, with Those of ...

Sir Walter Raleigh - 1892 - 326 pages
...deaf when he list, And in faith never fast. llis desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a...And conceits are excused. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. SB. WR...
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Seventeenth Century Lyrics

George Saintsbury - English poetry - 1892 - 362 pages
...deaf when he list, And in faith never fast. His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy ; He is won with a world of despair And is lost with a toy. Of womankind such indeed is the love, Or the word love abused, Under which many childish desires And conceits...
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A Paradise of English Poetry, Volume 1

Henry Charles Beeching - English poetry - 1893 - 352 pages
...deaf when he list. And in faith never fast, His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a toy. But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself...
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The Golden Pomp: A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to Shirley

Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1895 - 438 pages
...deaf when he list, And in faith never fast. His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy ; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a toy. Of womankind such indeed is the love, Or the word love abused, Under which many childish desires And conceits...
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A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics

English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...would be difficult to find until far later. Eg : desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; e is won with a world of despair And is lost with a toy. Jonson's anapaests (see The Triumph of Charis, p. 183) are not very successful, though scarcely deserving...
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