 | Thomas Evans - 1810 - 386 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | George Wishart - 1819 - 562 pagina’s
...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 abhore, And hold a synod in thy heart,... | |
 | 1819 - 556 pagina’s
...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. For if confusion... | |
 | 1837 - 540 pagina’s
...: — " My dear and only love, I pray That little world of thine Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy. "For if confusion have a part Which virtuous souls abhor, And call a synod in thine heart, I'll never love thee more. " Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 414 pagina’s
...MORE. THE MARQUIS OF MOKTROSE. MY dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee, Be govern'd by no other sway But purest monarchy ; For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I'll call a synod in my heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 356 pagina’s
...MORE. THE MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. Mv dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee, Be govern'd by no other sway But purest monarchy ; For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I'll call a synod in my heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | James Maidment - 1834 - 260 pagina’s
...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 - 1840 - 580 pagina’s
...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 abhor, And hold a synod... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 774 pagina’s
...recognised those lines of Montrose, the Hero and the Bard : "My dear and only love, I pray, ThatliUle world of thee, Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchy." The dead rose, the song, those images of beauty and of joy, the connection of ideas which they suggested,... | |
 | 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 pagina’s
...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 abhor, And hold a synod in... | |
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Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all. 
