 other friends remain,' That 'loss is common to the race' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more. Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some...  Comoediae sex - Page 424by Terence - 1857 - 642 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...thoughts of happy and rejoicing creatures over whom the dark but as yet unfelt doom has already broken. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledges! now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. 0 father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. 0 father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...Loss is common to the race," — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledges! now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 236 pages
...is common to the race'—• And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more : Too common! Never morning wore ^o evening, but some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, Who pledgest now thy gallant son;... | |
 | Great Britain - 1851 - 574 pages
...Loss is common to the race," And common is the common place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...morning wore To evening but some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now, thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be... | |
 | Francis Meredith - 1860 - 326 pages
...preserved her from touching on any of the commonplace (and most wearisome) topics of consolation. " That loss is common, would not make My own less bitter...common ; never morning wore To evening, but some heart would break." Certainly, I think it is one of the greatest proofs of the selfishness of human nature,... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...whatsoever without experience of sorrow ?" A poet of our o*" to has told us " That loss is common does not make My own less bitter ; rather more ; Too common ! Never morning wore To evening bat some heart did break." Vacant chaff, well meant for grain, was all that Demon« ;' to offer. This,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...Loss is common to the race," — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, Who pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done,... | |
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