 | 1846 - 860 pagina’s
...Christabel :— ' Alas ! they bad been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poiKon troth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth i« vain : And to bo wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness on the brain. And thus it chanced,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pagina’s
...contention being once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. А1м ! they had been friends in youth ; but whispering tongues...truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life i . thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 406 pagina’s
...so bright a dame ! But when he heard the lady's tale, And when she told her father's name, Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again,...Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispqring tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pagina’s
...might beseem so bright a dam« ! But when he heard the lady's tale. And when she told her dither's name. Why 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 can poison truth And constancy lives... | |
 | 1883 - 676 pagina’s
...think it has been noticed that the well-known lines in Coleridge's Christabel (pt. ii.),— "Alus ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth," and what follows, very closely resemble a passage in Spenser's Fairy Queen, iv. 4, stanzas 1 and 2. The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 484 pagina’s
...lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. CHAPTER VI. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; liut whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy...realms above ; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; Ami to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. * * * * • Each spoke words... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pagina’s
...both, Three times he smote on stomach stout, - From whence at length these words broke out. Jititler. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wrath with one we love, T^nth work like madness on the brain. Coleridge. WREATH. I SENT thee late a... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pagina’s
...Coleridge's Christabet, it may oftentimes be said of brothers, whose love is rent asunder : "Alas 1 they bad been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be it-roth n.iil one ice love. Doth work lite madness in the train." Too often, perchance, it happens,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pagina’s
...so bright a dame ! But when he heard the lady's tale, And when she told her father's name, Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again,...been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can goisjn truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny, ; ancl youth is vain ; And... | |
 | Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness - 1853 - 424 pagina’s
...her head resting on her bosom. CHAPTER XII. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whisp'ring tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in...; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wrath with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." — Coleridge. IT is still glorious weather,... | |
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And to 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. 
