 | 1828 - 1538 trang
...the words of a poet, whom it scarce beseems me to praise, and who needs no praise of mine : — For to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. STC Hamlet loved Ophelia in his happy youth, when all iiis thoughts were fair and sweet as she. But... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 trang
...name. Why wai'd Sir Leoline so pale. Murmuring o'er the name again. Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine? Alas! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...constancy lives in realms above , And life is thorny; and youtb is rain : And to be wroth with one we lore. Doth work like madness iu the brain. And thus it... | |
 | 1831 - 596 trang
...whole it has no meaning, and yet is exceedingly interesting. The following passage is beautiful. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ******** They parted — ne'er to meet again ; But never either found another To free the hollow heart... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 trang
...Lord lîolaiid de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongue» ter. The oceans, and the deserts, and the abysse«,...And the deep air's unmeasured wildernesses, Answer chanced, as 1 divine, Wilh Roland and Sir Leolino. Kach «pake words of high disdain And insult lo... | |
 | 1831 - 472 trang
...— Glasgow. She need not be ashamed of the poet who gave birth to the stanzas which he has entitled Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth. Beautiful one ! To me thou art Like a fairy mirror's glance, Fill'd with a legend of the heart,—... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 354 trang
...being once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. CHAPTER VI. Alas ! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to his heart's dear brother, But never either found... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 628 trang
...she really the daughter of Roland de Vaux, and would the friends have met again and embraced ? — ' Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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 disdain And insult to his... | |
 | 1834 - 512 trang
...convicting either of them of plagiarism, but to prove that our author suffers nothing in the comparison: " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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 disdain And insult to his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 trang
...included in this Section. See MOORE'* Notices, ante, Vol. IIL p. 286. — E.] FARE THEE WELL. (') " Alas ! they had been friends in Youth ; But whispering...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, the... | |
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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. 
