 | Author of Thoughts in suffering - 1842 - 108 pages
...me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion . Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around ; Nor that content, surpassing health, The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned. Nor fame, nor power, nor... | |
 | Francis Foster Barham - 1843 - 304 pages
...same transcendant serenity appears likewise in the character of Socrates — ' That content, excelling wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned.' To this condition the noblest souls aspire with ceaseless and anxious labour ; they aspire to stand... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...me, and a tone Arise« from its measured motion ; How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion I 1 bwm dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion ; How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion ! n — Li j , Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live,... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
...rounded with a sleep,— is written In a frame of mind far different from that in which Shelley wrote: Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found . . . Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...rounded wift a sleep,— is written in a frame of mind far different from that In which Shelley wrote: Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found . . . Yet now despair Itself is mild. Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...described as " cheerful ; " I do not know on whose account this hypocrisy is maintained. Alas ! we have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. But it is not to be wondered at that others should take a brighter view of our condition. Just (again)... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within...surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 632 pages
...life. Slielley tells us of himself, in those beautiful Verses written, in Dejection, near Naples, — ' Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around.' And he indicates in the ' Alastor1 that the utmost he hoped to realize was — ' Not sobs nor groans,... | |
 | 1845 - 606 pages
...life. Shelley tells us of himself, in those beautiful Verses written, in Dejection, near Naples, — ' Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around.' And he indicates in the ' Alastor' that the utmost he hoped to realize was — 1 Not sobs nor groans,... | |
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Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; — To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. 
