| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...those entitled Jessy. " Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear — Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear — Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet,...despairing Than aught in the world beside — Jessy !" The conclusion of the other is as follows : " Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...lightens on his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels tho rapture, That thy presence giee to me." Or again,— " Altho' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is...thee despairing, Than aught in the world beside." And where in the records of feeling can we find a more affectionate description of love and poverty... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...those entitled Jessy. " Here's a health 1o ane I lo'e dear— Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear— Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear—Jessy I Altho' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied; Tis sweeter for thee despairing... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 236 pages
...affection for her he feigned a hopeless passion, and imagined himself the victim of despair ;— " Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear—Jessy ! • Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied^ 'Tis sweeter for... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...the sternest ire, or laughs with the loudest or slyest mirth ; and yet he is sweet and soft,"sweel as the smile when fond lovers meet, and soft as their parting tear!''! If we farther take into account the immense' variety of his subjects ; how, from the loud flowing revel... | |
| 1845 - 440 pages
...— hut that is a suhject ! Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear, Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as the parting tear — Jessie I Although thou maun never he mine, Although even hope is denied I 'Tis... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...her he feigned a hopeless passion, and imagined himself the victim of despair;— " Thou art swept as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear—Jessy ! Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied; 'Tis sweeter for thee... | |
| John Kay Taylor - English poetry - 1847 - 40 pages
...muse. In all the compass of his verse, there is nothing more touching than this exquisite stanza:"— " Altho' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied, ' Tis sweeter for thee dispairing Than aught in the world beside." "His household presented a melancholy spectacle: the poet... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...fond loven •* And soft as their parting tear—Jessy! ALTHOUGH thou maun never be mine, Although beside—Jessy! Here's a health, &c. I mourn through the gay, gaudy day, As, hopeless, I muse on thy... | |
| Robert Burns - 1865 - 236 pages
...charming Chloe. JESSY. CHORUS. HERE'S a health to ane I loe dear! Here's a health to ane I loe dear ! Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy 1 Altho' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing, Than... | |
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