 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pàgina 3321828Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1841 - 832 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 pàgines
...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. " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 564 pàgines
...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. "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pàgines
...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 : * ****** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof,... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pàgines
...— an intrusion of a dramatic expression into a reflection on life. When the poet tells us that " to be wroth with one we love doth work like madness in the brain," he puts into words which every child can understand an emotion which all human beings, as they look... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and \outh is vain : And nd 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain : And l wail. Tradition, legend, tune, * Where shivered was fair Scotl And thus it chanced, as I diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | 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 Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pàgines
...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. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
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