...Hervey her son, the Bishop, appears to have derived the two characteristics which had the strongest 1 ' Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled...lover — True love is by silence known — In my eyes you'll best discover All the powers of your own.' 1 Chesterfield's Letters, ii. 40. influence on his...

...verse in a foreign language, are even yet as well known as they should be : TO LAURA HARLEY. " Laura, would you know the passion You have kindled in my...lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." The exile came to an end, however. It had provided...

...Voltaire paid tribute to her in the only English verses from his pen which have been preserved : " Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled...lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own." Even Charles Churchill, that most rancorous of satirists,...

...advanced years of composing in the language, though he read it with tolerable ease. TO LAOÏ HEKVKY. Hervey ! would you know the passion You have kindled...lover ; True love is by silence known. In my eyes you '11 best discover All the power of your own. There is a letter to Mr. Theriot from Cirey, in 1738,...

...passion You. have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. M 2 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." The exile came to an end, however. It had provided...