| Thomas Evans - 1810 - 386 pages
...lived. The following poem is taken from Watson's scarce collection of Scotch Poems, part 3, 1711.] MY dear, and only love, I pray This noble world of thee, Be govern'd by no other sway, But purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, And hold a synod in thy heart,... | |
| George Wishart - 1819 - 562 pages
...ambition scorns to love. A noble soul doth still abhore To strike, but where its conquerour. Part First. MY dear and only love I pray This noble world of thee, Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchic. For if confusion have a part, Which vertuous souls... | |
| 1819 - 556 pages
...ambition scorns to love. A noble soul doth still abhore To strike, but where its conquerour. Part First. MY dear and only love I pray This noble world of thee, Be governed by no other sway Which vertuous souls abhore, And hold a synod in thy heart, But purest monarchic.... | |
| James Maidment - 1834 - 260 pages
...lines should find such favour, while BJontrose's poems, including those beautiful verses commencing My dear and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee, &c. VI. EXTRACT FROM MERCURIUS REFOHMATUS, 4th June 1690. But since I am on this tragical subject of... | |
| Mark Napier - 1838 - 580 pages
...and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway But pure»t monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, • And hold a synod in thy heart, Til never love thee more. ***** If in the empire of thy heart Where I should solely be, Another do... | |
| Mark Napier - 1838 - 576 pages
...horror of such tribunals was even to mingle with the gentlest effusions of his accomplished mind, — My dear and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor,... | |
| Mark Napier - 1840 - 580 pages
...beautiful verses to his love for his royal master, and his anxiety to save him from evil counsellors. My dear and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest Monarchie ; For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 578 pages
...three stanzas, which Mrs. Arkwright has set to music with her usual exquisite taste and skill : — ' My dear and only love, I pray This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 592 pages
...three stanzas, which Mrs. Arkwright has set to music with her usual exquisite taste and skill : — ' My dear and only love, I pray This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls... | |
| 1847 - 650 pages
...three stanzas, which Mrs. Arkwright has set to music with her usual exquisite taste and skill :— " My dear and only love, I pray This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls... | |
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