My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate... Scott's Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field - Pàgina 218per Walter Scott - 1899 - 335 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pàgines
...Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface I For they appeal from tyranny to God. Hrttfoner of i. 5Iy "are penetrable stuff:" : nivard eneasea le Conjeil a accorder aux ecclcsiastiques et aux [•..'.-,:- un toms suffisont pour... | |
| Sir Erasmus Wilson - 1847 - 560 pàgines
...!" Byron also, in the " Prisoner of Chillon," refers thus beautifully to the same phenomenon : — " My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sadden fears." After some disease of the scalp, it sometimes happens that the newly -formed hair remains... | |
| 1900 - 614 pàgines
...iii. 39, " Wherefore doth a living man complain?" ifec. 7. ' Prisoner of Chillón,' first stanza: — My hair is grey, but not with years; Nor grew it white...single night As men's have grown from sudden fears. A foot-note in Murray's ' Byron' instances the case of Marie Antoinette, on whom tho same effect was... | |
| 1900 - 676 pàgines
...39, " Wherefore doth a living man complain ? " ifec. 7. ' Prisoner of Chillón,' first stanza: — My hair is grey, but not with years; Nor grew it white...single night As men's have grown from sudden fears. A foot-note in Murray's ' Byron' instances the case of Marie Antoinette, on whom the same effect was... | |
| 1849 - 742 pàgines
...showing that the error has the weight of poetical authority in its favor : — My hair is gray, though not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. After proceeding to relate several amusing cases of this reputed bleaching of the hair, he goes on... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 430 pàgines
...alludes to the sudden discoloration of the hair, in the following lines : 11 My hair is gray, though not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single night, ; As men's have grown from sudden fears." It seems clearly proved by many examples that sudden alarm or great distress will, as Sir Walter Scott... | |
| Robley Dunglison - 1850 - 736 pàgines
...in the whole pileous system may occur after great or prolonged mental agitation. "My hnir is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white in a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears." Byron' » " Pritoner of Chtflon." "Danger, long travail, want and wo, Soon change the form that best... | |
| Victor von Arentsschild - 1851 - 588 pàgines
...Blattet me^t поф Slutfjen. THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN'. 1. My hair U grey, but not with year«, ftor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repoee, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
| Sir Erasmus Wilson - 1852 - 542 pàgines
...Byron, also, in the " Prisoner of Chillon," refers to the same phenomenon : — " My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, A! men's have grown from sudden fears." After some diseases of the scalp, it sometimes happens that... | |
| John Stilwell Jenkins - 1852 - 560 pàgines
...: ' " : ve • •' a • • IX. Itttniitttte. " My hair is gray, but not with years, For it grew white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears." — Brncw. THE first French Revolution, like the superlative vices it both sprang from and gave birth... | |
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