 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.  English Prose: Selections - Page 174edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...better right to say what he thinks of him than I have. " Is there here any dear friend of .Csesar ? To him I say, that Brutus's love to Caesar was no...chanc'd as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother, And parted ne'er to meet again... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...could point out to any one as giving an adequate idea of his great natural powers. It is high Gerinan, however, and in it he seems to " conceive of poetry...love, Doth work like madness in the brain: And thus it chanc'il as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...Genevieve, My bright and beauteous bride ! BROKEN FRIENDSHIP. [FROM THE UNFINISHED POEM OF CHRISTABEL.] 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...name. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine f nd t And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I... | |
 | Gift - 1846 - 268 pages
...Crown'd with mercy, O ! how sweet Will eternal friendship be ! CW THOMPSON. THE QUARREL OP FRIENDS. 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 I , Each spoke words of high disdain And insult to... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? — Gray. 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 Uoluiul and Sir Leoliiie. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...she cried. " Emily ! Emily I" exclaimed Alick, but he stood in the drawing-room alone. CHAPTER III. Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. COLRRIDGE CHRISTABEL. "WHERE'S Emily, I wonder?" said the soft languid voice of Lady King, (she always... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 484 pages
...us, by its proximity to the Cadr, of those beautiful lines from the " Christabel" of Coleridge:— " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. • » * • * * • * But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues ean poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...other musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering to:iguos can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. i man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as this... | |
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