 | 1840 - 824 ページ
...his late father's young mistress. " Love," he tells her " levels all ranks." Thus I passed my hours In the soft palace of a fairy future ! My father died...peasant-born, Was my own Lord. Then did I seek to rise Ont of the prison of my mean estate; And, with such jewels as the exploring mind Brings from the caves... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1841 - 578 ページ
...power upon thee. — From my first years my soul was fill'd with thee : I saw thee midst the flow'rs the lowly boy Tended, unmark'd by thee — a spirit...palace of a fairy Future ! My father died; and I, the peasant- born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And,... | |
 | George T. Fisher, William Alfred Delamotte, F. G. Delamotte - 1845 - 104 ページ
...which has often struck me forcibly, and which I may as well mention ; and that is, that tobacco, -" Like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the sceptre." There is nothing else, that I know of, that does so as effectually. I do remember that it has been... | |
 | 398 ページ
...thought of tales that by the winter hearth Old gossips tell— how maidens sprung from King Have stooped from their high sphere; how Love like Death, Levels...Thus I made my home In the soft palace of a fairy I utuie I My father died ; and I, the peasant born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 ページ
...Old gossips tell — how maidens, sprung from king?, Have stoop'd from their high sphere ! How love Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside...palace of a fairy future. My father died, and I, the peasant born, Was my own Lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate, And with... | |
 | 1858 - 396 ページ
...thought of tales that by the winter hearth Old gossips tell— how maidens sprung from Kings Have stooped from their high sphere; how Love like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crool Beside the scepLre. Thus I made my home In the soft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 ページ
...wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope : I thought of tales that by the winter hearth OKI gossips tell — how maidens, sprung from kings, Have...all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter. Thus I made my home In the sOft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died; and I, the peasant-born,... | |
 | Mrs. Benson, Nelly Deane (fict. name.) - 1864 - 280 ページ
...the touch of her gentle hand, and the soft light of her loving eyes. CHAPTER III. LOVE AND PRIDE. " Well, this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt,...and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the sceptre." BULWEH. EUSTACE HARTLEY shewed no traces of his late immersion, as he stood by Nelly's side, and heard... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 ページ
...hearth Old gossips tell — how maidens sprung from kings Have stoop'd from their high sphere; how Love, Beside the sceptre. Thus I made my home In the soft palace of a Fairy Future! The Lady of Lyons, Act in. Scene II. EB LYTTON. LOVER. How to Cure a He was to imagine me his love,... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1865 - 318 ページ
...other views for me, views in accordance with a father's judgment, not with a lover's passion — for love, like death, levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook beside the sceptre. He peremptorily desired me to come to him at once. When I reached home he was insensible, owing to... | |
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Enter'd the breast of the wild-dreaming boy ; And from that hour I grew — what to the last I shall be — thine adorer ! Well ; this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that by... 
