 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...lamented, none that has read the " 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 peace was slain j And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. Yet how is it possible that Mr. and Mrs. Temple... | |
 | Edward Young - English literature - 1802 - 402 pages
...stars. The sun himself by thy permission shines ; And, one day, thou shalt pluck him from his sphere. Amid such mighty plunder, why exhaust Thy partial...ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. O Cynthia 1 why so pale ? Dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbour ? Grieve to see thy wheel Of ceaseless change... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...dear Narcissa. I was walking in a place called Iii this celebrated poem he thus addresses Death : " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ' " Thy shaft...And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. These lines have been universally understood of the above deaths ; but this supposition can no way... | |
 | Edward Young - Emotions - 1802 - 146 pages
...died not long after, and to these successive dissolutions, Young alludes in these remarkable lines : Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain ; thrice e'er thrice yon mooa had filled her horn. Mr. and Mrs. Temple are thought to be the Philander... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...dear Narcissa. I was walking in a place called In this celebrated poem he thus addresses Death : " Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? " Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain J " And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. These lines have been universally understood... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...lamented, none that has read the " Night " Thoughts" (and who has not read them ?) nee'ds to be informed. Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had iill'd her horn. Yet how is it possible that Mr. and Mrs. Temple and Lady Elizabeth Young could _be... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1805 - 686 pages
...her much-lamented relatives: how neatly together their deaths occurred the poet himself informs us. Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft...And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn ! To the sorrow Young felt at his losses, the world is indebted for the Night noughts. By his marriage... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...The sun himself by thy permissiori^hines, And, one day, thou shalt pluck him from his sphere. Amidst such mighty plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancor wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft slew thrice; and thrice... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 238 pages
...vil. They begin now to verge from their bigotn, *ยป and allow them at least to be men, though n-tf " Insatiate archer! could not one suffice ? " Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace wa " slain; " And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd he " horn. " christians, I believe); and that... | |
 | Edward Young - Death - 1805 - 326 pages
...Infatiate archer ! could not one fuffice ! Thy fhaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was flain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. O Cynthia ! why fo pale ? Doft thou lament Thy wretched neighbour ? grieve to fee thy wheel Of ceafelefs change outwhirl'd... | |
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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. 
