 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 378 pages
...lyrical jingle have come quivering through all the couloirs of intervening days, to ours : instance,— "I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me. Is her hand so soft and pure? I must press it to be sure." Then comes the School for Scandal, and —... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 pages
...lyrical jingle have come quivering through all the couloirs of intervening days, to ours: instance, — "I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me. 182 Is her hand so soft and pure? I must press it to be sure." Then comes the School for Scandal, and... | |
 | Walter Sydney Sichel - 1909 - 728 pages
...probably to be found in a half recollection of Mrs. Millamant's song in Congreve's " Way of the World."3 " I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not...sip. Has the maid who seeks my heart Cheeks of rose untouched by art ? I will own the colour true When yielding blushes aid their hue. Is her hand so soft... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pages
...seem not chaste to me. What care I how chaste she be ? — and in turn has been imitated by Sheridan : I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not...nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. BickcrstafTs jolly miller was even more philosophic: There was a jolly miller Lived on the river Dee... | |
 | Walter Sydney Sichel - 1909 - 728 pages
...on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. Has the maid who seeks my heart Cheeks of rose untouched by art ? I will own the colour true When yielding blushes aid their hue. Is her band so soft and pure ? I must press it to be sure : Nor can I be certain then Till it grateful press... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1112 pages
...seem not chaste to me. What care I how chaste she be T — and in turn has been imitated by Sheridan : I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; 1 ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. Till Duinna, Act i., Sc. *. BickerstafTs... | |
 | Thomas Newbigging - 1910 - 282 pages
...rare, and grand, and unique, and costly, but if they are not owned by me what care I by whom they be ! I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not...nectar on a lip, But where my own did hope to sip. Give me my own little store of personal friends and favourites. Poor things some of them, but mine... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...words are strokes, And strokes death to her. 4172 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 5, RECIPROCITY. I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not...nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. 4173 Sheridan : Duenna. Act i. Sc 2 BECKONING. So comes a reck'ning when the hanquet's o'er, The dreadful... | |
 | 1912 - 408 pages
...she's a knave, the fool. Samuel Bishop [1731-1795] AIR From " The Duenna " I NE'ER could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw...sip. Has the maid who seeks my heart Cheeks of rose, untouched by art? I will own the color true When yielding blushes aid their hue. Is her hand so soft... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - 1913 - 336 pages
...by she makes such eyes They never look at me. — ANNE WARRINGTON WITHRTJP. SONG FROM "THE DUENNA" I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not...sip. Has the maid who seeks my heart Cheeks of rose, untouched by art? I will own thy color true, When yielding blushes aid their hue. Is her hand so soft... | |
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip, But where my own did hope to sip. 
