 | George Gilfillan - 1845 - 500 pages
...sympathy and sorrow shuddering down the wind on it as it dies away. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see this great spirit, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...be, that in vain I would essay, as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness ! — so it fling Forgetfuluess around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme." After... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 pages
...sympathy and sorrow shuddering down the wind on it as it dies away. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see this great spirit, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling ; So that it wean mo rag or vale, Sultana of the nightingale,3 The maid for whom his m Forgelfulness around me — it shall seem To me, (hough to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He,... | |
 | F- B- (hon.) - 1847 - 376 pages
...should it beguile some weary hour, any trouble the Author may have had will be more than amply repaid. " So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish...gladness, — so it fling Forgetfulness around me, it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme." CHILDE HAROLD. London, September,... | |
 | 1903 - 664 pages
...regards canto iv. stanza iv., Mr. Coleridge may in a reissue notice that the idea contained in the lines And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep, is suggested by Figaro in Beaumarchais. A Catalogue of the Armour and Arms in the Armoury of the Knights... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 316 pages
...that of a fiend but resembles the neigh of a homeless steed. More truly than Byron might he say, " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep." For our parts, we love to see him, as he stands beside the boiling abyss of the French Revolution;... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...by. Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt In soft adoption of another's sorrow. Aaron IIM. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First iu the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we kast wish to behold will... | |
 | Joseph Warren Fabens - 1853 - 414 pages
...the burlesque character of it exclusively ; I felt more in the condition of Byron, when he said — "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep " "But," said I, with a jerk as it were, for I saw the necessity of calming Vale by a change of topic,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 pages
...be, that in vain I wonld essay as I have snng to sing. Yet, thongh a dreary strain, to this I cling; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness—so it fling Forgetfniness aronnd me—it shall seem To me, thongh to none else, a not nngratefnl... | |
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He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife... 
