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. Longman's Briefer Grammar - Page 152by George James Smith - 1908 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I... | |
| 1816 - 676 pages
...which appears to us to be the vilest jargon we ever had toe misfortune to read : " Alas! they hail been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...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. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine,... | |
| 1816 - 612 pages
...tbe pas»age which contains it: — " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But nhUp'rinir ionguos can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and M>ntlt is vain; And to be wroth w ith one we Inve, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1817 - 212 pages
...thee, To listen and adore thee ; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But whispering tongues...poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above: And Dfe is thorny ; andyouth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the... | |
| 1824 - 984 pages
...acquainted with poetry, it is appropriated to its author. Mr. Coleridge's original is in Chrlstabel. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ¡ Ала constancy lives in realms above : And life is thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 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 tongues...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: And thus it chanc'd as I divine,... | |
| British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...long, Shall live the towers of Hougomont, And fields of WATERLOO. «R LEOLTNE. ,VT CoieriOge. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...ocean. FARE THEE WELL. " Alls ! they had been friends in Youth; "But whispering tongues can fpoison 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 : ******* " But never either... | |
| mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 pages
...period of her acquaintance with Miss Avondel had not-been able to procure for her. CHAP. XXI. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues...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.1* COLERIDGE. ANN Fitzelm declared... | |
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