 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...and adore thee ; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. FARE THEE WELL. " Alas ! they had been friends in Youth ; But whispering...with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : * ****** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! Л finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — nd, Disordered, through her currents dash, To gain...shivered was fair Scotland's spear, And broken wa diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...Alas, they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constaney dwells in realms above, And life is thorny, and youth is...the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Koland and Sir Leoline. Each spoke words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother. They... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! A finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — y. The Flmrm of the Forest. [By Mrs Cockbum.] I've...I've felt all its favours, and found its decay: Sweet \outh is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...quarrel 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...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 his... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...startled Scotland loud should ring, ' Revenge for blood and treachery !' " SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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 his... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...name. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine f nd 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 pages
...Crown'd with mercy, O ! how sweet Will eternal friendship be ! CW THOMPSON. THE QUARREL OP FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering...chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline I , Each spoke words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother ; They parted — ne'er... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Uoluiul and Sir Leoliiie. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother :... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...she cried. " Emily ! Emily I" exclaimed Alick, but he stood in the drawing-room alone. CHAPTER III. Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. COLRRIDGE CHRISTABEL. "WHERE'S Emily, I wonder?" said the soft languid voice of Lady King, (she always... | |
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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. 
