 | Book - 1868 - 284 páginas
...came ! He saw ! He conquered ! And you will all agree that he has a prize worth the winning, for " Old as I am — for ladies love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." Ladies and gentlemen, we shall for some time at least lose the happy smiling face of our merry and... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 páginas
...all in rest. SHAKSPEARE. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. SHAKSPEARE. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power .of beauty I remember yet. DRYDEN. Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. But grant... | |
 | Edward J. Wood - 1869 - 318 páginas
...age of ninetythree years walked from Chart to London to court a sixth. He might well have said : " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem " they showed us a cottage where, they... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 1870 - 244 páginas
...hand on his heart, arid quoting poetry. "I may say with Dry den," added the gallant old gentleman : '"Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.' " Lady Lundie looked unaffectedly shocked. Mr. Delamayn went a step farther. He interfered on the spot... | |
 | George James De Wilde - 1872 - 274 páginas
...famous opening lines of Cymon and Iphigenia, in which the poet speaks in his own proper person : — " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit." Cotterstock Hall was built by Norton, says Bridges, and... | |
 | Charles Henry Parry - 1872 - 508 páginas
...addressed to his Lordship by Mr. Parry under the above signature. 2 Dryden, " Cymon and Iphigenia : " " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit." DENRY SATHURST, AFTERWARDS LORD CHANCELLOR. 145 I beg... | |
 | Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania - 1874 - 870 páginas
...hypothenuse of an obtuse triangle. Surely, the Venus de Medici was never chiselled from such a model t " Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." — DBYDBK. mastoid process of the one, and the plummet, as it should do, will strictly indicate the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1876 - 714 páginas
...Yes, but I was once young, and surely I may say with the poet, I forget which of them, •' Though old I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." I forget indeed the names of the ladies as completely, pretty nigh, as I do that of the poet; but I... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1877 - 496 páginas
...debility should be ranked amongst the best things." — Quintilian, Instil. Orat, V. 12. * " Old though I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." — Chaucer. examine it, find my reason the very same it was in my most licentious age, except, perhaps,... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1877 - 620 páginas
...debility should be ranked amongst the best things." — Quintilian, Instit. Orat., V. 12. l " Old though I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet." — Chaucer. examine it, find my reason the very same it was in my most licentious age, except, perhaps,... | |
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OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit. 
