 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...pain, f'tn chance my heart and harp have lost a string, And boih may jar : it may be, that in vain rta, — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He, who grown aged in this... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 332 pages
...be, that in vain I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I eling ; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish...or gladness — so it fling Forgetfulness around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme V. He, who grown aged in this... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 368 pages
...And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I langh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tia that onr natnre cannot always bring Itself to apsithy, for we mnst steep Onr hearts first in the... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pages
...Holding the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment — Doge of Venice, L 2. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. — BYRON : Don Juan. RICHARDSON had said, long before, — Indeed, it is to this deep concern that... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 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 Forgctfulness around me, — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. BYRON... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment. — Doge of Venice, I. 2. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. — BYRON : Don Juan. RICHARDSON had said; long before, — ; Indeed, it is to this deep concern that... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pages
...I say and do all sorts of foolish things'* to drive away the memory of it. and make me forget. * " So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief, or gladness ! — so it fling Forgelfulness around me !" EPIGRAMS. " I will give you a specimen ot some epigrams I am in the habit... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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 Forgctfulness around me — it shall seem To mo, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. He who... | |
 | Bertha H. Buxton, Jennie - 1876 - 316 pages
...stead." " I do believe you are laughing at something I don't understand," said Jennie, puzzled. " ' And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep,' " said the little mother, and would say no more, As for Guy, instead of being pleased and sympathetic... | |
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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... 
