 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...— 'Sparta hath many a worthier son than he.' Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need; The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me, — ami I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such • seed. The spouseless Adriatic... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 432 pages
...lines of Byron's may be applied : — " Meanwhile, I seek no sympathies, nor need :' The thorns that I have reaped are of the tree I planted ; — they...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed." Who can wonder at the pride of Lady Hester not descending to private life and poverty, when England's... | |
 | Frederick WALPOLE (Hon.) - 1851 - 478 pages
...lines of Byron's may be applied : — " Meanwhile, I seek no sympathies, nor need : The thorns' that I have reaped are of the tree I planted ; — they...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed." Who can wonder at the pride of Lady Hester not descending to private life and poverty, when England's... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 426 pages
...lines of Byron's may be applied : — " Meanwhile, I seek no sympathies, nor need : The thorns that I have reaped are of the tree I planted ; — they...should have known what fruit would spring from such a sued." Who can wonder at the pride of Lady Hester not descending to private life and poverty, when... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...many a worthier son than he." Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me,...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. XI. The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord ; And, annual marriage now no more renew'd, The Bucentaur... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 466 pages
...lines of Byron's may be applied : — " Meanwhile, I sook no sympathies, nor need : The thorns that I have reaped are of the tree I planted ; — they have torn me, ami I bleod ; I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed." Who can wonder at the... | |
 | 1852 - 532 pages
...be said that they were but the harvest which themselves had sown, Each might exclaim — -The thorns are of the tree I planted ; they have torn me and I bleed : I might have known what fruit would spring from such a seed." The character of the fair orphan will be... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1853 - 434 pages
...one time, he seems to have seen through this thin selfdeception, and acknowledged that " The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted ; they...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed." But, generally, he appears to have been deluded by his passionate selfishness into the belief that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...a worthier son than he." * Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd ce or - ч seed. J4. The spouseless Adriatic, mourns her lord ; And, annual marriage no*v no more renew'd,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English fiction - 1853 - 502 pages
...a worthier son than he." ' Meantime I seck no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed: I shonld have known what frnit wonld spring from snch a seed. The sponseless Adriatic monrns her lord;... | |
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Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. 
