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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. "
Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution - Page 326
by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 pages
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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...sensibility and kindness of heart. PARE THEE WELL. Alu ! the; had been friends in Youth, But whisper inj tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in...be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness on the brain. ***** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood...
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Evelyn Stuart, or, Right versus might, by Adrian

Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pages
...thought gave him even more pleasure than did the bright smile of his promised bride. CHAPTER XXII. Constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. COLEIUDOE. EVELYN remained in her chamber in deep dejection. She had now no consolation in her distress....
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Thoughts on the Poets

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poisn" ' And constancy lives in realr* And life is thorny ; and youth is vain And to be wroth...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...
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Lost and won; or, The love test, by the author of 'The maid's husband'.

Henrietta Camilla Jenkin - 1846 - 954 pages
...vexation of his heart — the unacknowledged sorrow that all should seem thus wrong; and feeling that— ' Life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain, — ' he wrote to Sir Frederic to request that he might come back, if only for a few days, to the Hall....
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...fovet, Heu ! patriam, patriam desiderat ! - illa carenti Sola, licet vita sit redimenda, domus ! XII. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy dwells in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love...
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...fovet, Heu ! patriam, patriam desiderat ! — illa carenti Sola, licet vita sit redimenda, domus ! XI. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy dwells in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love...
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Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Volumes 3-4

1846 - 860 pages
...Christabel :— ' Alas ! they bad been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poiKon troth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth i« vain : And to bo wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness on the brain. And thus it chanced,...
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The poetical and dramatic works of S.T. Coleridge 3 vols, Volume 2

Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 pages
...name, Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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 insult to his...
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Waverley Novels: Vol. 12, Volume 12

Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pages
...contention being once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. А1м ! they had been friends in youth ; but whispering tongues...truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life i . thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain....
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

1847 - 540 pages
...fragments lie. POPE. 11. From loveless youth to unrespected age, No passion gratified, except her rage. 12. And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. COLERIDGE. 13. Of all bad things by which mankind are curs'd, Their own bad tempers surely are the...
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