 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 832 pages
...be, that in vain I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness— so it fling G*NT. MAC. Decemter, l«16. Forgetfulaess around me— it shall seem , To me, though to none else,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...be, that in vain I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish...or gladness — so it fling Forgetfulness around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He , who grown aged in this... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk II. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring Ere what we least wish to behold will... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...be, that in vain I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling; So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish...gladness — so it fling Forgetfulness around me— it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. Y. • He, who grown aged in this... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may...our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] Such is not the experience of the Christian, who, weeping with those that... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring Ere what we least wish to behold will... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - England - 1824 - 496 pages
...worst for me and you ! 'Tis Tiov/jive years since we were one,' And four since we were two." 1 * " So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish...if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep;—and if I weep, "Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy" &c, Don Juan, Canto... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to hurlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may...and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always hring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 314 pages
...season : " Let us, prilhee, have none of the day !" I think I can give no stronger proof of the socia* " So that it wean me from the weary dream " Of selfish...gladness ! — so it fling "Forgetfulness around me!" Chtide Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " Tis that I may not weep... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...things human: And the sad Iruth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And, if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must sleep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring Ere what we least wish to bf.hold will... | |
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He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife... 
