 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.  Lectures on the English Comic Writers - Pagina 193de William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 394 pagini
...de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering to/igues can poieon truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...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... | |
 | lady Catherine Stepney - 1835 - 996 pagini
...a relief. Do you remember those exquisite lines which so truly paint a state of such estrangement ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...poison truth, And Constancy lives in realms above ; While to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain ; Each spoke words of high... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pagini
...yield me many a grateful thought — Not tecch me to repine. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. a. T. COLERIDGE. 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 - 1837 - 308 pagini
...some of the smaller pieces included in this section. See MOORE's Notices.] FARE THEE WELL. 1 " Alas I they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...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•... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pagini
...'COLERIDGE. THE DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tonfrues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above...Doth work like madness in the brain ; And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 302 pagini
...keener by all the thoughts of ' benefits forgot.' Do you remember those fine lines of Coleridge's ? ' Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with what we love, Doth work like madness in the brain,' " I suppose that from such agonizing strife the... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 528 pagini
...keener by all the thoughts of ' benefits forgot.' Do you remember those fine lines of Coleridge's ? ' Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with what we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.' " I suppose that from such agonizing strife the... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 pagini
...of the Rhine. STERNFEL8. THE BROTHERS. Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whisp'ring words can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above,...is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with those we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. COLERIDGE'S Chriitabel. The legend relates, that... | |
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 386 pagini
...feelingly— Why wax'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...chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted—ne'er to meet again... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pagini
...here, and growing still ; So grows ours evermore, both theirs and mine. THE DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. 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... | |
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