 | Sir Walter Scott - Covenanters - 1832 - 354 pages
...being once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. CHAPTER VI. Alas ! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to his heart's dear brother, But never either found... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 628 pages
...she really the daughter of Roland de Vaux, and would the friends have met again and embraced ? — ' Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...convicting either of them of plagiarism, but to prove that our author suffers nothing in the comparison: " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 pages
...included in this Section. See MOORE'* Notices, ante, Vol. IIL p. 286. — E.] FARE THEE WELL. (') " Alas ! they had been friends in Youth ; But whispering...with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ; ***** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 394 pages
...de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering to/igues can poieon truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | lady Catherine Stepney - 1835 - 996 pages
...a relief. Do you remember those exquisite lines which so truly paint a state of such estrangement ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...poison truth, And Constancy lives in realms above ; While to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain ; Each spoke words of high... | |
 | Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...yield me many a grateful thought — Not tecch me to repine. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. a. T. COLERIDGE. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 308 pages
...some of the smaller pieces included in this section. See MOORE's Notices.] FARE THEE WELL. 1 " Alas I they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ; * » * * * But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof•... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pages
...'COLERIDGE. THE DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tonfrues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above...Doth work like madness in the brain ; And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to... | |
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. 
