| Angus Calder - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 202 pages
...on me '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...should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.12 The 'quotation' from Milton, which he also used at the end of Manfred, somewhat undercuts the... | |
| George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...many a worthier son than he." Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have rcap'd are of the tree I planted : they have torn me, and...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. XI. The spouselesg Adriatic mourns her lord ; And, annual marriage now no more renew'd, The Bucen tanr... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 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, - and I bleed: 90 I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. XI The spouseless Adriatic mourns... | |
| Thorslev - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 240 pages
...more characteristic of the Byronic Hero to say: Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need — The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted,—...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. (IV, 10) 140 But enough has been written on the autobiographical in Childe Harold III and IV. Comparatively... | |
| Jim Clemmer - Business & Economics - 1995 - 356 pages
...filings on the black, greasy floor. THE LAW OF IMPROVEMENT DISPLACEMENT The thorns which I have rtap'd an of the tree I planted, they have torn me, and I bleed....have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. — Lord Byron Both the true example and fictional story are variations of a very old performance principle.... | |
| James L. Haley - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 546 pages
...blamed no one but himself for his present troubles: "Sir," I seek no sympathies, nor need; The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. It would have been pointless to deny that the attack had taken place, but, the first element in the... | |
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