 Hervey, wo'uld you know the passion, You have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. " In my silence see the lover; True love is by silence known; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.  Notes and Queries - Page 3941883Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - Poetry - 1789 - 214 pages
...wound. EPISTLE LXIII. TO LADY HERVEY. BY Af. DE VOLTAIRE. HER.VEY, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination,...lover, True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. EPISTLE LXIV. Jk BIRTH-DAY OFFERING TO A YOUNG LADY.... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 442 pages
...LADY HERVEY. BY M. DE rOLTAIRE. HERVEY, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast i Trifling is the inclination, That by words can be...lover, True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. EPISTLE LXIV. A BIRTH-DAY OFFERING TO A YOUNG LADY.... | |
 | British periodicals - 1821 - 690 pages
...pansiou Yon have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination, Which by words can be exprest. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known : In my eyes you'll best discover All the influence of your own. These verses are easy and natural ; and display... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 472 pages
...femmes poetes de l'Angleterre. 3. VOLTAIRE. TO LADY HERVEY. Hervey , would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination...lover; True love is by silence known : In my eyes you'll best discorer AU the power of your own. * N sera peut-être surpris de trouver Voltaire parmi... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 472 pages
...poetes de l'Angleterre. 2. VOLTAIRE. TO LADY HERVEY. Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindlcd in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by...lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover AH the power of your own. * VOLTAIRE. N sera peut-être surpris de trouver Voltaire... | |
 | Baroness Mary Lepell Hervey Hervey - English letters - 1821 - 360 pages
...literary curiosity, are worth reprinting. TO LADY HERVEY. Hervey,. would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination...lover ; True love is by silence known : In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. Later in life her ladyship honoured Horace Walpole... | |
 | Baroness Mary Lepell Hervey Hervey - English letters - 1821 - 356 pages
...would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? ^v Trifling is the^aclination - . « • In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known : In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. Later in life her ladyship honoured Horace Walpole... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...in English, equally complimentary, as the reader may judge : — would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be exprcss'd. In my silence see the lover; True love is by silence known! In my eyes you'll best discover... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...singular effort of the muse of Ferney : " TO LADY HERVEY. " Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination...see the lover : True love is by silence known : In ray eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." P. ix. These lines are light and elegant... | |
 | 1822 - 430 pages
...passion You have kindled ID my breast ? • Trifling is the inclination Which by words can oe expreit. In my silence see the lover ; ., ., True love is by silence known ; ID my eyes you'll best discover All the influence of your own. Marietta*. VOLTAIRE. THE following... | |
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