 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 pages
...and feign'd abuse, Such as perplex' d lovers use, At a need, when, in despair _To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies docs so strike, They borrow language of dislike; Aud instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pages
...all, and fcign'd abase, Such as perplext lovers use, At a need, when in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding...Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatriee and Siren, Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witch, Hyaena, Mermaid, Devil, Bthiop wench, and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 320 pages
...and feign'd abuse, Such as perplext lovers use, D2 At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, Thfey borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss, And... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pages
...all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplext lovers use, At a need, when, in despair, To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding...Sweetheart, Bliss, And those forms of old admiring, CaO her Cockatrice and Siren, Basüók, and all that's evil, Hitch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop,... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pages
...abuse, Su -ft i5 perplext lovers use, At a need, when, in despair, To paint forth their fairest fiur, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness...language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jfwel, Honey, Sweetheart, Blis«, And those forms of old admiring, Call her Cockatrice and Siren, BisiHsk,... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...all, andfeign'd abuse, Such as perplext lovers use, At a need, when, in despair. To paint forth their fairest fair, "Or in part but to express That exceeding...Call her Cockatrice and Siren ; Basilisk, and all thafs evil, Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplext lovers use, At a need, when, in despair, To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so ttriite, They borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Sliss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart,... | |
 | 1823 - 734 pages
...(not painted) mistresses. As perplexed lovers use At a need, when in despair, To paint forth their fairest fair ; Or in part but to express That exceeding...fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike. no other way they know A contentment to express, Borders so upon excess, That they do not rightly wot... | |
 | 1824 - 340 pages
...feign 'd abuse, A Such as perplex' d lovers use, At a need, when, in despair, To paint forth their fairest fair , Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth m strike, They borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss, Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to expresa That eiceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They...Blackamoor, Monkey, Ape, and twenty more ; Friendly Trail'rees, loving Foe,— Not that she is truly so, But no other way they know A contentment to express,... | |
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Twas but in a sort I blamed thee: None e'er prosper'd who defamed thee; Irony all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplex'd lovers use, At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which... 
