 Tis morning: but no morning can restore What we have forfeited. I see no sin: The wrong is mixed. In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.  The Living Age - Page 1901903Full view - About this book
 | Asiatic Society of Japan - Japan - 1922 - 120 pages
...days was not so young at it is now. Genji was eight years younger and she was proud and sensitive. " In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be ! Passions spin the plot We are betrayed by what is false within ! " The Princess had suffered at Genji's neglect, but the crowning... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Japan - Japan - 1922 - 120 pages
...was not so young at it is now. Genji was eight years younger and she was proud and sensitive. " La tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot We are betrayed by what is false witJuii 1 " The Princess had suffered at Genji's neglect, but the... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1897 - 546 pages
...Meredith's sonnets — Lucifer in Starlight or The Spirit of Shakspere — or to recall lines like these : ' In tragic life, God wot No villain need be ! Passions spin the plot ; We are betrayed by what is false within ; ' ' or these : ' The city of the smoky fray ; A prodded... | |
 | William Sharp - English poetry - 1886 - 402 pages
...'Tis morning : but no morning can restore What we have forfeited. I see no sin : The wrong is mixed. In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be ! Passions spin the plot ; We are betray 'd by what is false within. XXIX. XLIX. He found her by the ocean's moaning verge,... | |
 | Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - English poetry - 1887 - 362 pages
...'Tis morning : but no morning can restore What we have forfeited. I see no sin: The wrong is mix'd. In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be ! Passions spin the plot : We are betray'd by what is false within. GEORGE MEREDITH. AND when the dull sky darkened down to... | |
 | F. A. H. Eyles - English poetry - 1889 - 416 pages
...each discovered that the other is fabe. " Yet," he exclaims — I see no sin : The wrong is mix'd. In tragic life God wot No villain need be ! Passions spin the plot ! We are betrayed by what is false within. The weary night passes ; morning comes clear and cool. He... | |
 | George Meredith - 1898 - 254 pages
..."Tis morning : but no morning can restore What we have forfeited. I see no sin : The wrong is mixed. In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be ! Passions spin the plot : We are betrayed by what is false within. XLIV They say, that Pity in Love's service dwells, A porter... | |
 | George Meredith - English poetry - 1897 - 276 pages
...'Tis morning: but no morning can restore What we have forfeited. I see no sin: The wrong is mixed. In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. 187 We saw the swallows gathering in the sky, And in the osier-isle... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English literature - 1898 - 240 pages
...sonnets — Lucifer in Starlight or The Spirit of Shakespere — or to recall lines like these : — ' In tragic life, God wot No villain need be ! Passions spin the plot ; We are betrayed by what is false within ' ; or these : — ' The city of the smoky fray ; A prodded... | |
 | Mary Cholmondeley - English literature - 1899 - 392 pages
...***** I have uot lack'd thy mild reproof, Nor golden largesse of thy praise. RED POTTAGE CHAPTER I In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be ! Passions spin the plot : We are betrayed by what is false within. —GEORGE MEREDITH. "I CAN'T get out," said Swift's starling,... | |
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