 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 366 sider
...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his...Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white -r " The blood once fervid now to cool began, " And Time's strong pressure to subdue the man : " I... | |
 | James Smith - 1833 - 218 sider
...subject happening to be the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — *' Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white; Gradual... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 334 sider
...the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — ' Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks ; In June 1825, he thus writes from Mr. Hoare's villa at Hampstead : — " Hampstead, June, 1825. "... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1838 - 356 sider
...proceeded not merely to be the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines: — ' Six years had pass*d, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ;... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 sider
...conversation with the poet Crabbe, one of the witty authors of the Rejected Addresses quoted the lines, — " Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ;... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 sider
...conversation with the poet Crabhe, one of the witty authors of the Rejected Addresses quoted the lines,— " Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ;... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 346 sider
...proceeded not merely to be the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — ' Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ;... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1841 - 200 sider
...the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — " Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks. My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching white ; Gradual... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1842 - 214 sider
...accession of our young Elizabeth. " Dicite lo Paean," therefore — " el lo bis dieif e Paean !" CECIL. CHAPTER XIX. Six years had pass'd and forty ere the...once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, display'dth' encroaching white. The blood once fervid now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | 1842 - 504 sider
...at first inquire — ' Does reason sanction what our hearts desire?'" Fraoi Talcy. APPROACH OF AOE. Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When...once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, display 'd th' encroaching while; The blood, once fen-id, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
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Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, displayed the encroaching white ; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... 
