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. The Augustan review - Сторінка 201816Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 стор.
...Beautiful exceedingly ! A finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — Alas ! they had @\bjcj X{i R cfXKS itg i ixj SPa e )1P kj}j j{j|j d$\%\&\ \outh is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
| 1895 - 844 стор.
...— an intrusion of a dramatic expression into a reflection on life. When the poet tells us that " to be wroth with one we love doth work like madness in the brain," he puts into words which every child can understand an emotion which all human beings, as they look... | |
| 1857 - 602 стор.
...constrained. But he was too much hurt to examine how far he was himself to blame ; for, as Coleridge says : " To be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ;" so he dashed on, regardless of every thing but his own bitter thoughts. Had he been less engrossed,... | |
| 1844 - 858 стор.
...is scarcely possible to help feeling some anger at the author of the humiliation — and ' to Ъс wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.' It is thus that we often find our greatest vexations arise from what appear our greatest blessings,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 стор.
...Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...love, Doth work like madness in the brain ; And thus it chanc'd as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And insult to... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 стор.
...and beauteous bride ! BROKEN FRIENDSHIP. [FROM THE UNFINISHED POEM OF CHRISTABEL.] ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 стор.
...between Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...love, Doth work like madness in the brain: And thus it chanc'il as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And insult to... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 стор.
...should ring, ' Revenge for blood and treachery !' " SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 стор.
...Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine f Alas ! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can...realms above, And life is thorny ; and youth is vain t And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I... | |
| Gift - 1846 - 268 стор.
...mercy, O ! how sweet Will eternal friendship be ! CW THOMPSON. THE QUARREL OP FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering tongues can...love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline I , Each spoke words of high disdain And insult... | |
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