 | 1857 - 602 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pàgines
...quarrel between Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...Doth work like madness in the brain ; And thus it chanc'd as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pàgines
...startled Scotland loud should ring, ' Revenge for blood and treachery !' " SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pàgines
...name. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine f nd t And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I... | |
 | Gift - 1846 - 268 pàgines
...Crown'd with mercy, O ! how sweet Will eternal friendship be ! CW THOMPSON. THE QUARREL OP FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering...chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline I , Each spoke words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother ; They parted — ne'er... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pàgines
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Uoluiul and Sir Leoliiie. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother :... | |
 | 1846 - 484 pàgines
...us, by its proximity to the Cadr, of those beautiful lines from the " Christabel" of Coleridge:— " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. • » * • * * • * But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They... | |
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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. 
