 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...defign'd For one fair female, loft him half the kind. CYMON CYMON AND IPHIGENIA. POETA LOQUITUR. /~\ LD as I am, for ladies love unfit, ^""^ The power of beauty I remember yet. Which once inflam'd my foul, and ftill infpires my wit. If love be folly, the fevere divine Has felt that folly, though he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...th£»! -gf one fair female, loft him half the kind. 0'' it. all, CYMON CYMON AND IPHIGENIA. POETA LD as I am, for ladies love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. V/hich once inflam'd my foul, and ftill infpires my wit. If love be folly, the fevere divine Has felt... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - Music - 1783 - 272 pages
...his Prologue to Cymon and Iphigenia, when part the above age, gives a moft elegant turn to the fame thought : " Old as I am, for ladies love unfit, "...of beauty I remember yet, " Which once inflam'd my foul, and ftill infpires my wit !" § XII. In this group were thofe heroes who had fought mighty battles,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...defign'd For one fair female, loft him half the kind. r I CYMON AND IPHIGENIA. P o ETAL o QJU ITU R. LD as I am, for ladies love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. Which once infiam'd my foul, and ftill infpires my f wit. J If love be folly, the fevere divine Has felt that... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...ene fair female, loft him half the kind. SSj Hev'd ; Cr MON AND IPHIGENIA. POETA LOQUITUR. 0 LD » I am, for ladies love unfit, * The power of beauty I remember yet. i Which once inflam'd my foul, and ftill inspires my wit. f If love be folly, the fevere divine Has... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...thus candidly and spiritedly vindicates the passion he had so generously cherished through life.— Old as I am, for Ladies' love unfit, The power of...yet; Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires ray wit! AH, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young desire ! And what pleasing pains we prove... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 346 pages
...rest become aware. CYMON AND IPHIGENIA. POETA LOQUITUR. as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The pow'r of beauty I remember yet ; Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires^ my wit. If love be folly, the severe divine Has felt that folly, though he censures mine ; 5 Pollutes the pleasures... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...elegant and affecting tale more than once with renewed pleasure; but though I c5n say with Dryden, " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit. The power of beauty I remember yet," Still I cannot wish that you should now employ your powers on a similar work. " To every thing," said... | |
 | Women - 1807 - 514 pages
...respectable pair, as communicated by an old gentleman, who was well acquainted with both the parties. " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, " The power of beauty 1 remember yet." DRY DEN. indeed so irresistible, that women have, in my opinion, must of the moral,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...merited his accusations had yet permitted him to bring forward. CYMON AND IPHIGENIA. Poeta loquitur. OLD as I am, for ladies love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires j my wit. If love be folly, the severe divine Has felt that folly,... | |
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OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit. 
