 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
...Rousseau, which is as true to human nature as it is beautiful in expression. " Were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could do no better, I would fasten them on some aweet myrtle, or some melancholy cypress, to connect myself... | |
 | Mrs. Silver - 1846 - 356 pages
...known the passion, that glows with unabated ardor in my bosom, when he said : ' Were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could do no better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect... | |
 | George W. Burnap - Women - 1848 - 358 pages
...human heart, which is as true to human nature as it is beautiful in expression ; " Were I in a desert I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could do no better, I would fasten them on some sweet myrtle, or some melancholy cypress, to connect myself... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1849 - 450 pages
...moral feelings are at all concerned, never fails to write like a good man, — " were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; I would... | |
 | J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 486 pages
...beautify your character ! "Were I," says an author, from whom Dugald Stewart quotes, " were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could not do better, I would fasten them on some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; I would court... | |
 | Daniel Wise - Character - 1850 - 274 pages
...of his nature ; it will give him an object to love ; and as ROUSSEAU observes, " Were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could do no better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or some melancholy cypress. I would love... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Domestic relations - 1853 - 334 pages
...DUTY of the conjugal relation is MUTUAL ZOVE. We were made to love. ROSSEAU said, " were I in a desert I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could do no better, I would fasten them on some sweet myrtle, or some melancholy cypress, I would love it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...fruits it offers. I declare, said 1, clapping my hands cheerily together, that were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections — If I could do no better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 438 pages
...moral feelings are at all concerned, never fails to write like a good man) — " Were I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; I would... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1855 - 448 pages
...the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections: — if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to; — I would... | |
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I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to... 
