 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 - 394 ページ1883全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Caesar Litton Falkiner - 1902 - 418 ページ
...derived the two characteristics which had the strongest 1 ' Hervey, would 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... | |
 | Thormanby - 1907 - 372 ページ
...for any intrinsic merit, are worth reproducing here. , Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination...express'd. In my silence see the lover — True love is best by silence known : In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. " A curious fortune,"... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 ページ
...yet as well known as they should be : TO LAURA HARLEY. " Laura, would 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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1908 - 326 ページ
...as a literary curiosity they will bear repetition — " Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination...express'd. In my silence see the lover — True love is best by silence known; A curious fortune attended these verses. They were subsequently transcribed... | |
 | Charles Bastide - 1914 - 322 ページ
...died in London in 1747.] VOLTAIRE To Lady Herory (1725?) Hervey, would 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 best by silence known ; In my eyes you'll discover... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1916 - 504 ページ
...Englænderinde, om hvem dette kan siges. Verset lyder: Hervey, would you know the passion Vou have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination...the lover; True love is by silence known, In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own. Det er saare velment; men Voltaires franske Vers er... | |
 | Archibald Ballantyne - 1919 - 358 ページ
...addressed to an English lady were written for 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.1 These are not quite the only English lines which Voltaire... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1924 - 354 ページ
...English verses from his pen which have been preserved : " Hervey, would 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... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1927 - 358 ページ
...Voltaire, who thus apostrophized her after her marriage : " Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination...the lover; True love is by silence known: In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." 176 MARY LEPELL, LADY HERVEY (From a Miniature formerly... | |
 | Cleveland Bruce Chase - 1926 - 302 ページ
...another attempt on his part to be fashionable. " Hervey, would you know the 'passion You have kindl'd in my breast? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover — True love is best by silence known; In my eyes you'll best... | |
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