 We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away : It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its...  Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus - Page 132by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1891 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...the last. We rest :— A dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise:— One wandering thought polluted the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away : t is the same ! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of ¡ts departure still is free: Man's yesterday... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...that that word may convey to us. We rest ; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise l one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason...free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow l Nought may endure but mutability ! It was nearly noon when I arrived at the top of the ascent. For... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...— A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise— One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feelt here was no one to ask me why 1 wept, — And so I kept ON DEATH. ТЬлгв ii no work, nor derice, nor knowledge, nor vrrtdom. In the (p*r«, whither ihou... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...or modulation like the last We rest — A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise — One wandering ; Kmbrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same ! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path... | |
 | 1857 - 780 pages
...feeling when he wrote — We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason,...departure still is free, Man's yesterday may ne'er be like liis morrow ; Nought may endure bat mutability !' Earthly joys have eagle- wings-:— my poor lost... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Americans - 1833 - 350 pages
...its veracity. CHAPTER X. We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason,...or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away. SHELLEY. • THE tale of Balthazar was simple but eloquent. - His union with Marguerite, in spite of... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1833 - 354 pages
...its veracity. CHAPTER X. We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason,...or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away. SHELLEY. THE tale of Balthazar was simple but elo-. quent. His union with Marguerite, in spite of the... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1835 - 910 pages
...an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive. VOL III. CHAPTER XIII. It is the same, for be it joy or sorrow. The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday can ne'er be like his morrow, Nor aught endure save mutability. SHELLEY. THE month of June had commenced.... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 420 pages
...himself in verse as in prose. " We rest ; a dream has power to poison sleep. "We rise ; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason ; laugh, or weep, Embrace fond wo, or cast our cares away ; It is the same ; for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1835 - 452 pages
...himself in verse as in prose. " We rest ; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise ; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason ; laugh, or weep, Embrace fond wo, or cast our cares away ; It is the same ; for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still... | |
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