 Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.  Night Thoughts - Page 13by Edward Young - 1798 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 376 pages
...being, and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction : " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice : Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slam, And thrice ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." 16. I should have ventured a verse to the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...being, and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction: " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ! Thy shaft...And thrice ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn." I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles Skinner Matthews, Fellow of Downing... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...being, and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction: " Insatiate archer '. could not one suffice ' Thy shaft...thrice, and thrice my peace was slain, And thrice ere tiirice yon moon had fill'd her horn." I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...lamented, none that has read "Tho Night Thoughts" (and who has not read them ? ) needs to be informed. Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my pence was sla And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'«! her horn. Yet how is it possible that Mr.... | |
 | John Collins McCabe - American poetry - 1835 - 204 pages
...SATURDAY VISITER. THE DREAM, DEDICATED TO "EGERIA." "Young! Comely!! Intelligent!!!" " Insatiate" Editor "could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice and thrice my peace it slew." " 1 had a dream that was not all a dream." Methought I roved along a towering mount From... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of Young are no fiction : — " Insatiate archer \ could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...And thrice ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles Skinner Matthews, Fellow of Downing... | |
 | Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 1836 - 418 pages
...been familiar with the oft-repeated havoc of the inexorable Destroyer in his family connexion:— " Insatiate archer! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain." YOUNG. For some length of time after the death of her grandmother, she resided with her aunt Ruth Evans,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1836 - 416 pages
...that he followed to the grave. Well might he say of death, as did the melancholy poet of the night, Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ! It is the custom in this town, for young women clothed in white, with a handkerchief drawn through... | |
 | Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Benjamin Lundy - American poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...familiar with the oft-repeated havoc of the inexorable Destroyer in his family connexion : — . " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain." YOUNG. For some length of time after the death of her grandmother, she resided with her aunt Ruth Evans,... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...Thy shaft flew thrice, amt thrice my peace was slain l And ihrice, ere thrice yor. moon had filled her horn." These lines have been universally understood of the above deaths ; hut tl,is supposition can no way be reconciled with Mr. Croft's dates, who says, Mrs. Temple died... | |
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