 | John Edward Patterson - English poetry - 1913 - 432 pages
...dear? Should you some coast be laid on, Where gold and diamonds grow. You'll find a richer maiden — " How can they say that Nature Has nothing made in vain? Why, then, beneath the water Do hideous rocks remain? No eyes those rocks discover That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wandering... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - 394 pages
...disfigures the story of the " Prioress," 10 Gay may have had it in mind, " Twas when the seas were roaring." How can they say that Nature Has nothing made in vain...then beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain? which disputes with the "Nun's Priest's Tale" the honour of being the narrative masterpiece among the... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...treasure To losing of my dear ? Should you some coast be laid on Where gold and diamonds grow, You'd find a richer maiden, But none that loves you so....the wandering lover, And leave the maid to weep." 119 All melancholy lying, Thus wail'd she for her dear ; Repaid each blast with sighing, Each billow... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1926 - 758 pages
...7726. 28 willows] willows, El. to Ab. 1720, MP 1726. 34 Cease, cease thou cruel Ocean, MP 1726. IV. How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain...hideous rocks remain? No eyes the rocks discover, 50 That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand' ring lover. And leave the maid to weep. V. All melancholy... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1926 - 762 pages
...1720, MP 1726. 34 Cease, cease thou cruel Ocean, MP 1726. 45 Not one that loves you so. MP 1^26. IV. How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain ; Why then beneath the water Should hideous rochs remain? No eyes the rochs discover; 50 That lurh beneath the deep, To wrech the wand'ring lover.... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...treasure, To losing of my dear? 20 Should you some coast be laid on, Where gold and diamonds grow, You 'd I shall v m.; 25 Has nothing made in vain; Why then beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain? No eyes the rocks... | |
 | Calhoun Winton - Drama - 1993 - 236 pages
...there with Peachum and his double-entry bookkeeping: over here in one column money, over there love. How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain;...discover, That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand'ring lover, And leave the maid to weep. CF Burgess has noted that the weeping Maid is here echoing... | |
 | Dianne Dugaw - Invention (Rhetoric) - 2001 - 342 pages
...Should you some Coast be laid on Where Gold and Di'monds grow, You'd find a richer Maiden "DEEP PLAY" How can they say that Nature Has nothing made in vain;...discover, That lurk beneath the Deep, To wreck the wand'ring Lover, And leave the Maid to weep. All melancholy lying, Thus wail'd she for her Dear; Repay'd... | |
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How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain; Why then beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain? No eyes the rocks discover, That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand'ring lover, And leave the maid to weep. 
