 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...Lord lîolaiid de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongue» ter. The oceans, and the deserts, and the abysse«,...And the deep air's unmeasured wildernesses, Answer in the brain. And thus it chanced, as 1 divine, Wilh Roland and Sir Leolino. Kach «pake words of high... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...— Glasgow. She need not be ashamed of the poet who gave birth to the stanzas which he has entitled Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth. Beautiful one ! To me thou art Like a fairy mirror's glance, Fill'd with a legend of the heart,—... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Covenanters - 1832 - 354 pages
...being once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. CHAPTER VI. Alas ! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to his heart's dear brother, But never... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...convicting either of them of plagiarism, but to prove that our author suffers nothing in the comparison: " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...be wroth with one we 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 628 pages
...she really the daughter of Roland de Vaux, and would the friends have met again and embraced ? — ' Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...to be wroth with one we 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 pages
...included in this Section. See MOORE'* Notices, ante, Vol. IIL p. 286. — E.] FARE THEE WELL. (') " Alas ! they had been friends in Youth ; But whispering...be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ; ***** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 394 pages
...de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering to/igues can poieon truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...be wroth with one we 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... | |
 | lady Catherine Stepney - 1835 - 996 pages
...a relief. Do you remember those exquisite lines which so truly paint a state of such estrangement ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...poison truth, And Constancy lives in realms above ; While to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain ; Each spoke words of high... | |
 | English fiction - 1835 - 60 pages
...be conceived by any «are those to whom agonizing experience has taught the painful truth, that *' to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness on the brain." There indeed lay the rankling venom of the wound. How vainly do we often hear it taken for granted,... | |
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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. 
