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" To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain. "
Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ... - Page 255
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 356 pages
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A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...vain 15 And all my forces needs must be undone, She having gained both the wind and sun. TO HIS COY MISTRESS. HAD we but world enough and time, This coyness,...our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Shouldst rubies find ; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before...
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A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...vain 15 And all my forces needs must be undone, She having gained both the wind and sun. TO HIS COY MISTRESS. HAD we but world enough and time, This coyness,...our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Shouldst rubies find ; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before...
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A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 396 pages
...vain 15 And all my forces needs must be undone, She having gained both the wind and sun. TO HIS COY. MISTRESS. HAD we but world enough and time, This coyness,...our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Shouldst rubies find ; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before...
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The Life and Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Alfred, lord Tennyson, a memoir ...

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 390 pages
...hyperbole, the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines, " To his coy Mistress," where Marvell says Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime . . . .... I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till...
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The Living Age, Volume 230

Literature - 1901 - 886 pages
...their wooing should be conducted. if only time and space were their servants and not their masters. Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would 1slt down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side...
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Love of Sisters

Katharine Tynan - Irish fiction - 1902 - 374 pages
...plenty of time. " ' If we hud worlds enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime, We would nit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day,' " his forty-five years few in which to have achieved his achievements, and had not been ashamed to...
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The Masters of English Literature

Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 458 pages
...fuller example of this school at its very best may be given this citation from Marvel's lines To his Coy Mistress : Had we but world enough, and time, This...walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Gauges' side Should'st rubies find : I by the tide Of Ilumber would complain. I would Love you ten...
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Andrew Marvell

Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 258 pages
...the heart to omit them, so eminently characteristic are they of his style and humour : — " Had wjg but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were...think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Tlyra by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find : I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I...
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A Selection from the Great English Poets: With an Essay on the Reading of Poetry

Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...cheerful note: And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness,...sit down and think which way To walk and pass our love's long day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find : I by the tide Of Humber would...
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The Empire and the Century: A Series of Essays on Imperial Problems and ...

Rudyard Kipling - Commonwealth countries - 1905 - 938 pages
...war, I have seemed to detect in his grumble or impatient fling the very note of the delayed lover : ' Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime . . . My vegetable love should grow Vaster than Empires, and more slow . . . But at my back I always...
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