 | Fashion - 1867 - 740 pages
...apply to the pleasant memories I should be sorry to have vanished altogether from my remembrance : ' I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most : Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.' " One first and last peep at Mr. John Moncton, the hero par excellence,... | |
 | 1872 - 516 pages
...memory, so all unutterably dear to her : by these, without any words, she often seemed to say — • " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." You heard it when she sang, still not those words. She had a pleasant... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...breathes such sweetness and sacredness. The key-note of the whole is struck at the beginning : — " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; "fis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."* And the same sentiment seeks... | |
 | Beulah Kezia Hanson - 1845 - 410 pages
...-wear on, I hunger more To see your face again before I die. ALEXANDEB SMITH. ~i hold it true, whatc'cr befall, I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. TENNYSON. GAINIpassoveranintervaloffouryears. During this period no... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...license, iu the field of time, Unfettered by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wake*; Nor, what may count itself as blest, • The heart...it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow rao«t; 'Tis bfttfr to hin-f, brred and /ojl, Than never to hare tared at all. JOSEPH AND nis BRKTHIU.N.—... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1871 - 704 pages
...tenderness and elegance few prose men of his day could have rivalled. Tennyson's words are these : — " I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow moat; "Пз better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.'" In Mtmoriam, xxvii. Congreve's... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...license in the field of time, Unfetter 'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes ; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that...I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVIII. THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes ; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that...I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. 44 XXVIII. THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 462 pages
...Unfettered by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself ns blost, The heart that never plighted troth, But stagnates...true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; . Ti- b-lirr to Aa« loetd and roz¡, Than never to have lored at all. JOSEPH лгго HIS BumiosN.—... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...license in the field of time, Unfettered by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes ; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that...in the weeds of sloth, Nor any want-begotten rest. II hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'T is better to have loved and lost... | |
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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time... 
