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" Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone... "
The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts - Page 743
edited by - 1878 - 1131 pages
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...was born a twin. Canto ii. St. 172. A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth and love. Canto ii. St. iS6. Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing. Canto ii. St. 199. In her first passion, woman loves her lover : In all the others, all she loves is...
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DON JUAN

LORD BYRON - 1875 - 418 pages
...Alas 1 the love of women 1 it is known To he a lovely and a fearfnl thing ; For all of theirs npon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to hring To them hot mockeries of the past alone, And their revenge is as the tiger's spring, Deadly,...
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Rays from the Southern Cross

Georgiana Peacocke - New Zealand poetry - 1876 - 314 pages
...Then away with sorrow, and grief, and pain, For Spring, bright Spring, is coming again. A PROTEST. "Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely...to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone. " BYRON. WHAT say'st them — that a woman's all is cast Upon one die, that die the love of man? Nay,...
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Rays from the Southern cross [verse].

Georgiana Peacocke - 1876 - 354 pages
...Then away with sorrow, and grief, and pain, For Spring, bright Spring, is coming again. A PROTEST. " Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely...to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone. " BYRON. WHAT say'st thou — that a woman's all is cast Upon one die, that die the love of man? Nay,...
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Ferne Fleming: A Novel

Catherine Ann Warfield - English literature - 1877 - 436 pages
...dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.— SHAKSPEABH. Alas ! the love of woman ! It is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing, For...bring To them but mockeries of the past alone.— BYRON. BOOK SIXTH. CHAPTER I. A RENCONTHE— A RECONCILIATION— LETTERS. FERNE FLEMING went to the...
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The poetical works of lord Byron

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...; And all the stars that crowded the blue space, Saw nothing happier than her glowing face. cxcix. Alas, the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely...to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone, And their revenge is as the tiger's spring, Deadly, and quick, and crushing ; yet, as real Torture...
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Children of Nature: A Story of Modern London

William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe Earl of Desart - English fiction - 1878 - 344 pages
...expression of startled horror on her face. " Forgive me 1 But I love him—I love him I" CHAPTER XX. Alas ! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely...to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone. BYBOK. LADY MELDRUM concealed, under all her oddities and vulgarities, a good heart; and she had never...
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British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge ...

Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...interpreter Of nature's oracle — first love, — that all Which Eve has left her daughters since her fall. ed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it r ; 246 247 To them but mockeries of the past alone, And thfir revenge is as the tiger's spring. Deadly,...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn ...

Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...less of widow, Can make the fool of which they made before. 2950 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 216 Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely...to bring To them, but mockeries of the past alone. G, Love ! thou art the very god of evil, For, after all, we cannot call thee devil. 2952 Byron : Don...
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The Religion of Beauty in Women: And Other Essays on Platonic Love in Poetry ...

Jefferson Butler Fletcher - Family & Relationships - 1911 - 236 pages
..."the secret influence of the sex ; " and while that lasts, Byron's further words ring warningly : — Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely...to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone. Mixed in tone and treatment as these essays are they do glance from various angles at one interesting...
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