 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 542 pages
...utter dejection before this most marvellous of English lyrics closes : " We look before and after, Aud pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With...could scorn Hate and pride and fear, If we were things boru Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near." How strong is the contrast... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With somc pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, — I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of... | |
 | 1863 - 392 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. •we ever could come near. ig;, and fear; .ou scorner of the ground ! ;p; gladness... | |
 | Anne Judith Penny - 1863 - 190 pages
...says Bacon ; who thinks to be so now ? Perhaps one or two of those whom the * ' We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...is fraught, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." world calls dreamers : but the ambition of Alfieri* would be strange to many of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...fear ; If we were things born not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. 20 Better than all measures of delight and sound, Better...treasures that in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou Scorner of the ground ! 21. Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know, Such harmonious... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream ; Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, — I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream; Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. L_ Better than all measures Of... | |
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 
