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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. "
A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language ... - Page 502
by George Lillie Craik - 1861
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...flow in such a crystal stream ? We look hefore and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things horn Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...flow in such a crystal stream I We look before and niter, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Mot to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of...
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Calcutta Monthly Journal and General Register ...

1839 - 790 pages
...as love, that overflows her bower. We looV before and after. And pine for what U not ; Our sinceresl laughter With some pain is fraught. Our sweetest songs are those, that tell of saddeit thought. Yet, if we could scorn, Hate and pride and fear ; If we were things born Not to...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...what is not : Our sineerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; 2GO 261 XIX. Yet if we eould seorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should eome near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...
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Gems of the Modern Poets: With Biographical Notices

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...flow in such a crystal stream 1 We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures, That in books are found, Thy...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...notes flow in such a crystal stream ! We look before and after, And pine for what U not : Our einccrest tongue ; but by surmise, No doubt, lese of her language...learned his alpha beta better From llaidee's glance could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...flow in such a crystal stream t We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our nincerest rs shall bring ; Ah ! why has happiness no second...Should the lone wanderer, fainting on Ыв way, liest could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thouj. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear ; If...near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, , Setter than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scornerofthe ground...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...in such a crystal stream? We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Setter than all measures Of delightful sound, Setter than all treasures That in books are found, Thy...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. xx. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures Tfat in books are found,...
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