| 1841 - 832 ページ
...can poison truth ; And pon-itancy lire« in realms above ; Anil life is thorny ; »nd youth is vaui ; 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. Each spake words of high disdain And 'insult to... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 ページ
...and adore thee ; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. 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,... | |
| Readings - 1843 - 466 ページ
...twig that looks tip at the sky. Hanging so light, and hanging so high, THE DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth: But whispering tongues can poison truth j And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain: And to be wroth with... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 ページ
...clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! Л finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — nd, Disordered, through her currents dash, To gain...tune, * Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear, chanced, as I diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! A finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — y. The Flmrm of the Forest. [By Mrs Cockbum.] I've...I've felt all its favours, and found its decay: Sweet \outh is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
| 1895 - 844 ページ
...stndies it will, we believe, hold the clue to a large part of the problem of the poet's life : — Alas, they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constaney dwells in realms above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one... | |
| 1857 - 602 ページ
...constrained. But he was too much hurt to examine how far he was himself to blame ; for, as Coleridge says : " To be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ;" so he dashed on, regardless of every thing but his own bitter thoughts. Had he been less engrossed,... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 512 ページ
...friendship, and adapted to promote each other's happiness, of whom it may be said with melancholy truth, " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth." What then is the part which friendship ought to act in a case where rumor is strong against a friend... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 492 ページ
...adapted to promote each other's happiness, of whom it ¡nay be said with melancholy truth, " Alae ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth." What then is the part which friendship ought to act in a case where rumor is strong against a friend... | |
| 1844 - 858 ページ
...is scarcely possible to help feeling some anger at the author of the humiliation — and ' to Ъс wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.' It is thus that we often find our greatest vexations arise from what appear our greatest blessings,... | |
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