 It strange, dear author, yet it true is, That, down from Pharamond to Louis, All covet life, yet call it pain: All feel the ill, yet shun the cure: Can sense this paradox endure? Resolve me, Cambray, or Fontaine. The man in graver tragic known (Though...  Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., - Page 330by John Gibson Lockhart - 1848Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1899 - 626 pages
...All feel the ill, yet shun the cure. Can sense this paradox endure? Resolve me, Cambray or Fontaine. The man in graver tragic known, (Though his best part...done), Still on the stage desires to tarry ; And he who played the Harlequin After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary.' Prior's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1899 - 616 pages
...All feel the ill, yet ahun the cure. Can sense this paradox endure ? Resolve me, Camhray or Fontaine. The man in graver tragic known, (Though his best part...since was done), Still on the stage desires to tarry ; Aud he who played the Harlequin After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 pages
...paradox endure ? Resolve me Cambray ' or Fontaine. ' " The man in graver tragic known (Though his liest part long since was done), Still on the stage desires to tarry ; And he who played the Harlequin, After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary.'" Gay,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...All feel the ill, yet shun the cure. Can sense this paradox endure ? Resolve me, Cambray or Fontaine. e, as the former has been less kind to played the Harlequin, After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary. Cambray... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 670 pages
...lines that came to the mind of brave Sir Walter Scott, as he saw the curtain falling on his days, — The man in graver tragic known, (Though his best part...since was done,) Still on the stage desires to tarry . . . Unwilling to retire, though weary. Whether the departing minister had a lingering thought that... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1905 - 404 pages
...Sense this Paradox endure ? Resolve me, CAMBRAY, or FONTAINE. IV. The Man in graver Tragic known (Tho' his best Part long since was done) Still on the Stage...the Jest still loads the Scene, Unwilling to retire, tho' Weary. Written in the Nouveaux Interests des PRINCES de /'EUROPE. BLEST be the Princes, who have... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...All feel the ill, yet shun the cure ; Can sense this paradox endure ? Resolve me Cambray or Fontaine. The man in graver tragic known (Though his best part...done) Still on the stage desires to tarry : And he who played the Harlequin After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary. Not less... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1907 - 966 pages
...lines that came to the mind of brave Sir Walter Scott, as he saw the curtain falling on his days, — The man in graver tragic known, (Though his best part...since was done,) Still on the stage desires to tarry . . . Unwilling to retire, though weary. Whether the departing minister had a lingering thought that... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 528 pages
...(Though his best part long since was done) Still on the stage desires to tarry : And he who played the Harlequin After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary. Not less charming, in a different style, is the description, with its touches of melancholy, of the... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1906 - 286 pages
...paradox endure ? Resolve me Cambray ' or Fontaine, ' " The man in graver tragic known (Though his hest part long since was done), Still on the stage desires to tarry ; And he who played the Harlequin, After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary.'" Gay,... | |
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