 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 630 pages
...but be touched with the feeling so beautifully expressed in a poem which I have heard repeated : * My eyes are dim with, childish tears My heart is idly...decay; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what time takes away, Than what he leaves behiriU. Well, time cures every wound, and though the scar may... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...renounce." — Diehtung und Wahrheit, part ii. book 17. P. 47. Since a sweet familiar tone, &c.— " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred ; For the same sound is in my cars Which in those days I heard." — Wordsworth. P. 48. That highest grace of lave. — Meaning probably... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 612 pages
...poem which I have heard repeated :* My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it. still iu our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what time takes away, Than what he leaves behind.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...streamlet fears, How merrily it goes ! ' Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. And then follows that most impressive verse, " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...renounce." — (Dichtung und Wahrheit, part ii. book 17.) 69. Since a sweet familiar tone, <Jc.] " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard." — ( Wordsworth.) 70. That highest grace of love.] — Meaning, probably, le don d'amoureux merci,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...streamlet fears, How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. My eyea are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred...same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. And then follows that most impressive verse, " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink....fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind * Down to the vale this water steers. — Edit. 1815. Mourns less for what age takes away Than what... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 pages
...years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink....sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.§ — j * Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, vol. ip Î l ЬЫ. pp. 54, sq. î Ibid. vol. iii.... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink....sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.§ • Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, vol. ip 63. •J ' Ibid. pp. 54, sq. J Ibid. vol. iii.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 pages
...now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, 1 lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim...sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.§ * Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey , vol. ip 63. | Ibid. pp. 54, sq. 4 Ibid. vol. in. p. 313.... | |
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. 
