We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Readings from Literature - 142 ページ 編集 - 1915 - 320 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 540 ページ
...this most marvellous of English lyrics closes: " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ;...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near." How strong is the contrast with Wordsworth's " Skylark" ! Shelley's is far the more... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 ページ
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught :...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 542 ページ
...this most marvellous of English lyrics closes : " We look before and after, Aud pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ;...could scorn Hate and pride and fear, If we were things boru Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near." How strong is the contrast... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 ページ
...laughter wifli sonic pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 1 9. Y8t if we could scorn hate, and pride, and fear ; If we...not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. 20 Better than all measures of delight and sound, Better than all treasures that in... | |
| Anne Judith Penny - 1863 - 190 ページ
...now ? Perhaps one or two of those whom the * ' We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." world calls dreamers : but the ambition of Alfieri* would be strange to many of... | |
| 1863 - 392 ページ
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. •we ever could come near. ig;, and fear; .ou scorner of the ground ! ;p; gladness... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 ページ
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught :...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 ページ
...a crystal stream? xvru. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest langhter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought zix. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 ページ
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ;...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. L_ Better than all measures Of delightful sound; Better than all treasures That in books are found,... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 ページ
...love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught :...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
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