 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.  Spirit of the English Magazines - Pàgina 3601824Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and \outh s blessing, Kind its caressing ; But now 'tis fled — fled far away. I've seen And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Lcoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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
...friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ! And life is thorny...with one we love, 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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pàgines
...CHRISTABEL.] ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pàgines
...QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny,...one we 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pàgines
...of Tryermaine f 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 t And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pàgines
...Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering to:iguos can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. i man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as this... | |
 | Gift - 1846 - 268 pàgines
...QUARREL OP FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline I , Each spoke words of high disdain... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pàgines
...alone. CHAPTER III. Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny,...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. COLRRIDGE CHRISTABEL. "WHERE'S Emily, I wonder?" said the soft languid voice of Lady King, (she always... | |
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