| Abraham Holroyd - Ballads, English - 1873 - 228 pages
...Ho bore a great part in what may be called our Poetical Reformation."] 78 TO HIS COY MISTRESS. JAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady,...crime, We would sit down, and think which way To walk, aud pass our long love's day, Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find : I by the tide... | |
| William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1878 - 512 pages
...of Andrew Marvell's address " To his Coy Mistress:" " Had we but world enough and time, This toying, lady, were no crime ; We would 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... | |
| Maria Hall - 1885 - 500 pages
..."Well, listen to these amorous lines, which I swear are Marvel's own : — " ' TO MY COY MISTRESS. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and...Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find ; I by the tide Of Ilumbtr would complain ; I would Love you ten years before the flood ; And you should, if you please,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...prejudices, and I will therefore give an example of the sweetness and power of his verse : " To hii Coy Mistress. Had we but world enough, and time> This...think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. [Herrick's Works, ed. Haditt, i. 73.] Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find : I by... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...notice and praise. For elegance and gay extravagance, his " Cov Mistress " has never been excelled. " Had we but world enough, and time This coyness, lady,...sit down and think, which way To walk and pass our love's long day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find : I by the tide Of Humber would... | |
| George Dunn - English fiction - 1894 - 608 pages
...To his Coy Mistress'?" " No, sir, I have not." " Then listen, dearest ; it is worth your while : — We "would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.' Then he goes on to point the antithesis : — ' But at my back I always hear Time's wingdd chariot... | |
| John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 pages
...young, whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps young still. W. CARTWRIGHT. LXXXII TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness,...would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass one long, love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find ; I by the tide Of Humber... | |
| Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 596 pages
...the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines "To his coy Mistress," where Marvell that 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 the conversion... | |
| Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poets, English - 1897 - 600 pages
...the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines " To his coy Mistress," where Marvell that 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 the conversion... | |
| Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 614 pages
...the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines " To his coy Mistress," where Marvell that 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 the conversion... | |
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