Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder;... English Prose: Selections - Page 175edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
| 1845 - 752 pages
...linger a gleam of its former loveliness, as if all that had befallen it had been unable — "Wholly to do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." These, however, are the exception. Silence, sadness, sterility and desolateness are the rule. " As... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1816 - 82 pages
...stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had,been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,...the youthful Lord of Tryermaine Came back upon his heart again. • O then the Baron forgot his age, His noble heart sweH'd high with rage ; He swore... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...They stood aloof, the scars remaining Like cliffs which had beeu rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." Christabel, Part II. A coincidence worthy of remark is contained in the second ctanza of this canto,... | |
| John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...stood aloof, the scars remaining. Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." The Baron determines to send Geraldine back to the mansion of her father, and salutes her with a warn... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...stood nloof, the ecars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A drrary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,...away I ween The marks of that which once hath been. It would be injustice to the author to break the powerful spell in which he holds his readers, by any... | |
| 1816 - 676 pages
...the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, 'Gut neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly...I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.'' p. 32, 33. After telling us, that tbe legitimate mode of expressing love is " in words of imminent... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...is as follows:— " They stood aloof, the scars remaining Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, > Shall wholly do away, I ween, ••» C A dreary sea now flows between, The marks of that which once hath been." »." ^r. -.-«!... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1817 - 212 pages
...stood aloof, the scars remaining. Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been. Coleridge's Chriitabel. FARE THEE WELL ! FARE thee well ! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee... | |
| 1824 - 984 pages
...stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder...wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hatli been. The copy is in Childe Harold, Canto 3. Heights which appear as lovers who have parted In... | |
| England - 1854 - 758 pages
...scars remaiinng, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between ; — Bnt neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly...away, I ween. The marks of that which once hath been." And bear about the mockery of woe' To miduight dances and the public al*ow I What though no weeping... | |
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