PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. So, when affections yield discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come ; They that are rich in words must needs discover, They are but poor in... The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]. - Page 268edited by Full view - About this book
| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...her a maid Or not, she said Forego me now, come to me soon. THE SILENT LOVER. PASSIOVS are liken'd best to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but...discover, They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pages
...proves shall find it so ; — And, shepherd, this is love I trow. The Silent Liner. PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover; Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...Litre who will, , • • .., 'No stab the soul can kill. THE SJLE3X LOVER. ' . "pASSIONS are likrnM best to floods and streams ; -*• The shallow, murmur,...discover, They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 490 pages
...SILENT LOVER T)ASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and str •J- The shallow murmur, but the deep are d So, when affections yield discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they coi Theythat are rich in words must needs disc They are but poor in that which makes a lov Wrong not,... | |
| 1883 - 854 pages
...aloud : he began to find Teddy Lessingham downright amusing. CHAPTER XIII. — WnEWELL ENCROACHES. 1 They that are rich in words must needs discover They are but poor ¡u that which makes a lover." —RALEIGH. Without any suspicion of the base revelations that were... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 432 pages
...liken'd best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb ; So when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...iniquitous, and which his commission to Guiana" had virtually revoked. THE SILENT LOVER. PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come ; They that are rich... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...hour, And swept away the mansion flower. HORACE u MI'lll.l-:. THE SILENT LOVER. PASSIONS are likenM best to floods and streams ; The shallow murmur, but...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Wrong not, sweet mistress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart... | |
| Thomas Henry Lister - 1826 - 374 pages
...IHACKKLL, ARROWfHlTH & nnnuKS, JOHNIOH I-COVRT, FLKET-IT1EET. GRANBY. CHAP. I. Passions are likened best to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but...discover They are but poor in that which makes a lover. Sm WALTER RALEIGH. AMONG other places of resort where it was probable he might meet the Jermyns, Granby... | |
| Thomas Henry Lister - 1826 - 252 pages
...the sentiments of the last speaker;" it was therefore plain that he was still in town. CHAPTER XXII. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb ; So when affections yield discourse, it seems Passions are likened best to floods and streams ; The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They... | |
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