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" Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place : But lest your fetters prove too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And,... "
A Library of American Literature... - Page 39
by Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889
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English Lands, Letters and Kings ...

Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1890 - 370 pages
...me about, ye gadding vines, And, oh, so close your circles lace That I may never leave this place I But, lest your fetters prove too weak Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through I " This is better than Rochester's...
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Lamb's Essays: A Biographical Study

Charles Lamb - 1891 - 300 pages
...securer cincture of those excluding garden walls. I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet — Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about,...too weak, . Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through.* I was here as in a lonely temple....
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Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity: L'allegro : Il Penseroso ...

John Milton - 1891 - 242 pages
...thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes." See Appendix. 40. Imitated by Milton's friend Marvell : "Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines, Curl me about, ye gadding vines." Gadding points to the straggling growth of the vine ; cf. the similar epithets applied to it elsewhere...
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The Best Letters of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 366 pages
...garden-walls, wrote Elia in later years, " I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet,1 — " ' Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about,...too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briers, nail me through.' " At Blakesware, too, was the room...
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Charles Lamb's Essays

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...securer cincture of those excluding garden walls. I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet — Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines; Curl me about,...too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through. I was here as in a lonely temple....
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Old China: Being One of the Last Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 pages
...cincture of those excluding garden walls. I could have exclaimed with the garden-loving poet : — " Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about,...too weak Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through." * I was here as in a lonely temple....
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Charles Lamb

Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pages
...walls. I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet — Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twinos ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh so close...too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through.1 I was here as in a lonely temple....
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Selections from the Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet, — "Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines; 20 Curl me about, ye gadding vines; And oh so close your...fetters prove too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, 25 Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through." I was here as in a lonely...
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From Elizabeth to Anne

Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1897 - 366 pages
...world no certain shot Can make, or me it toucheth not. " Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines, Cnrl me about, ye gadding vines, And, oh, so close your circles lace That I may never leave this place I Bnt, lest your fetters prove too weak Ere I yonr silken bondage break, Do yon, 0 brambles, chain...
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Landscape in Poetry from Homer to Tennyson

Francis Turner Palgrave - Landscape in literature - 1897 - 324 pages
...decay of the oak. At last the charm of the country bursts out from the poet in a noble ecstasy — Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines, Curl me about, ye gadding vines, And oh?so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place : But, lest your fetters prove too...
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