Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. The Student's Treasury of English Song ... - Pagina 129door William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 pagina’s
...fool. — ss 205 34. You love not high estate Where comfort dies in vastness. MlSS MlTFOHD. 35. Oh, to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness on the brain. f COLERIDGE. 30. • To be with those, Whose joys are joys of sight, and smell, and taste. YOUNO. 37.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 pagina’s
...quarrel between Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues...; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like nradness in the brain : And thus it chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pagina’s
...wax'd Sir Leoline so pale. Murmuring o'er the name again. Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine t Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we lore. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline.... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pagina’s
...bier, In the same coffin, for the self-same grave ! FROM " CHIUSTABEL." SEVERED FRIENDSHIP. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Lcoline. Each spake words of high... | |
| John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pagina’s
...wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine > Alas .' to body and to mind." He paused, as if revolving...with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, excla in the brain. And thus it chanced, as 1 divine With Roland and Sir Leoline Each spake words of high... | |
| James L. W. West - 1978 - 244 pagina’s
...Nancy. "Twas the same, only somewhat modified, which Coleridge celebrates in his Christabel: "Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues...be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." In the morning I continued my journey towards Knoxville, bidding farewell to "Singed... | |
| Walter Pater - 1982 - 304 pagina’s
...refined habit of self-reflection, is illustrated by a passage on Friendship in the Second Part — Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues...be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high... | |
| George Gordon Byron - 1990 - 104 pagina’s
...Nor can we be what we recall. Nor dare we think on what we are. Lady Noel Byron Fare Thee Well Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But whispering tongues...be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain; But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof,... | |
| Francisco Lobo da Costa - 1991 - 302 pagina’s
...youth: But whispering tongues con poison truth: And constaney lives in realms above; And life is thormy; and youth is vain: And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. But never either foun another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aoof the... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1903 - 384 pagina’s
...once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. CHAPTER VI Alas I they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth tvith one me love, Doth work lite madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain, And... | |
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