Dramatis PersonaeChapman and Hall, 1864 - 250 pages |
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... least word brought gloom or glee , Who never lifted the hand in vain Will hold mine yet , from over the sea ! 5 . Strange , if a face , when you thought of me , Rose like your own face present now , With eyes as dear in their due degree ...
... least word brought gloom or glee , Who never lifted the hand in vain Will hold mine yet , from over the sea ! 5 . Strange , if a face , when you thought of me , Rose like your own face present now , With eyes as dear in their due degree ...
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... least - oh , true enough ! And , dear , truth is not as good as it seems ! Commend me to conscience ! Idle stuff ! Much help is in mine , as I mope and pine , And skulk through day , and scowl in my dreams At my swan's obtaining the ...
... least - oh , true enough ! And , dear , truth is not as good as it seems ! Commend me to conscience ! Idle stuff ! Much help is in mine , as I mope and pine , And skulk through day , and scowl in my dreams At my swan's obtaining the ...
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... least , persuade : Most like , you are glad you deceived me - rue No whit of the wrong : you endured too long , Have done no evil and want no aid , Will live the old life out and chance the new . 18 . And sentence is written all the ...
... least , persuade : Most like , you are glad you deceived me - rue No whit of the wrong : you endured too long , Have done no evil and want no aid , Will live the old life out and chance the new . 18 . And sentence is written all the ...
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... make rejoinder " - ( then It was , no doubt , you ceased that least Light pressure of my arm in yours ) " I can conceive of cheaper cures For a yawning - fit o'er books and men . 66 6 19 . What ? All I am , LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS . 51.
... make rejoinder " - ( then It was , no doubt , you ceased that least Light pressure of my arm in yours ) " I can conceive of cheaper cures For a yawning - fit o'er books and men . 66 6 19 . What ? All I am , LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS . 51.
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... least line Crossed without warrant . There you stand , Warm too , and white too : would this wine Had washed all over that body of yours , Ere I drank it , and you down with it , thus ! ABT VOGLER . ( AFTER HE HAS BEEN EXTEMPORIZING ...
... least line Crossed without warrant . There you stand , Warm too , and white too : would this wine Had washed all over that body of yours , Ere I drank it , and you down with it , thus ! ABT VOGLER . ( AFTER HE HAS BEEN EXTEMPORIZING ...
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Page 150 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 71 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws: that made them, and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 78 - Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast: Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men; Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the mawcrammed beast?
Page 79 - For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 73 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Page 85 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 101 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, "And hope and fear, — believe the aged friend, — "Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, " How love might be, hath been indeed, and is...
Page 79 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 73 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 86 - Fool ! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall ; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure : What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops : Potter and clay endure.