 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...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...chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline." As a man of genius, Coleridge appeared to have eaten of mandragora, or of " the insane root that takes... | |
 | 1851 - 408 pages
...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." ColeridgJs Christabel. DEATH dissolves the hallowed links of friendship, and melts away like frost-work... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 484 pages
...can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; Ami to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. * * * * • Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to his heart's dear brother, But never either... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 400 pages
...the words of a poet, whom it scarce beseems me to praise, and who needs no praise of mine : — " For to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." STC Hamlet loved Ophelia in his happy youth, when all his thoughts were fair and sweet as she. But... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 516 pages
...pursuit and systematic exercise of revenge. His it is to drain the dregs of the bitter truth, that To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And what shall we say of Hester Prynne, his ill-mated, ill-fated bride? Gazing at so mournful a wreck,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1990 - 104 pages
...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; But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars... | |
 | Francisco Lobo da Costa - 1991 - 302 pages
...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, the ascars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows letweon, But neither... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...tongues can poison truth; 410 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, 415 With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy Uve» In realm« above ; And life is thorny ; Mid rs to hide My shame and sorrow deep in my heart's core: These I could bear, but canno ; 1816.] [1816. But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— The; stood... | |
 | Sui Sin Far - 1995 - 320 pages
...It was a beautiful friendship, and even now, in their anger, I know they are loving one another." " 'And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain!' " quoted the professor. "Oh, Kate, my bonny, bonny Kate, cease talking and thinking about other people... | |
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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. 
