| 1853 - 542 pages
...consoled himself on having established with Mistress Anne Page. There was no great love between us at the beginning ; and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance." — Introduction to the LAY or THE LAST MINSTREL in Lockhart's LIFE OF SCOTT. " Base things, sire,... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 800 pages
...abandoning his profession, of which, he says, in the words of Slender, " there was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance." This resolution gave birth to " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," which appeared in 1805. It was sold... | |
| History, Modern - 1835 - 804 pages
...abandoning his profession, of which, be says, in the words of Slender, " there was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance." This resolution gave birth to " The Lay of the LaM Minstrel," which appeared in 1805. It was sold by... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 810 pages
...abandoning his profession, of which, he says, in the words of Slender, " there was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance." This resolution gave birth to " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," which appeared in 1805. It was sold... | |
| Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 294 pages
...consoled himself with having established with Mrs. Anne Page : ' There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance.' I became sensible that the time was come when I must either buckle myself resolutely to ' the toil... | |
| George Newenham Wright - 1836 - 356 pages
...Slender consoled himself with being established with Mrs. Anne Page, ' There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance.' " Having buckled himself resolutely to the toil by day, the lamp by night, and producing with little... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 324 pages
...consoled himself on having established with Mistress Anne Page : ' There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance.' " — Introduction to the Lay of the Last Minstrel. 1830. fill, and pastoral, was in great part the... | |
| 1839 - 320 pages
...consoled himself with having established with Mrs. Anne Page. ' There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance!' I became sensible that the time was come when I must either buckle myself resolutely to 'the toil by... | |
| American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...fields and poplar-trees, and those blockheads the mountains, and those cold.and-catarrh-mougers ihe rivers, they are hideous in mine eyes. I had small...know how to interpret them. They must be very freely translated — not literally ; and if read backwards or upside down, the sense will often be more readily... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...a calling, he felt the lines of Shakspeare eminently pat — "There was a small love between us in the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance !" His occupation was once more gone — plank after plank slipped from under his feet, yet his hopes... | |
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