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 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...nothing that I was Ere born to life and living woe. Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T is something better not to be. STANZAS. « Hen ijnanto minus est cum reliquis versari qnam tui meminisse !» AND thou art dead,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...that I was Ere born to life and living woe ! IX. Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been 'T is something better not to be. STANZAS. • HIU QUARTO MINUS EST CUH KK'.IQOIS VERSARI QUAM TCI Jt.EMIKHSE.' I. AND thou art... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pages
...endurance of evil can the soul find any stability. " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T is something better not to be." It is almost needless to say, that Byron never reached the point of indifference to misery... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...of evil can the soul find any stability. 9 " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T is something better not to be." It is almost needless to say, that Byron never reached the point of indifference to misery... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 454 pages
...almost exclaim with our unhappy poet — Byron. " Count all the joys thine hours have seen, Count all thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T were something better not to be." The vanity I do not know that the Machpelahs in which princes are... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 452 pages
...that I was Ere born to life and living woe ! Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T is something better not to be. AND THOU ART DEAD, AS YOUNG AND FAIK. " Hen, quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pages
...creases." " My heart is as gray as my hair." Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free. And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T is something better not to be. " Selfishness is always the substratum of our damnable clay." He was alienated and set apart... | |
 | 1876 - 616 pages
...and the grief, Are mine alone." And again : " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen ; Count o'er thy days from anguish free ; And know whatever thou hast been, 'T were something better not to be. " Know for myself, so dark my fate Through every turn of life hath... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1881 - 412 pages
...without restraint, in the lines of Byron, — " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T is something better not to be." 3 The intense, and often bitter, melancholy that pervades the lines of Heine, the representation... | |
 | James J. O'Connell - 1883 - 150 pages
...ADVISING THE AUTHOR TO MINGLE MORE IN SOCIETY. Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T is something better not to be. — BYRON. REFRAIN, dear Jim, and ask me not To mingle in the haunts of men ; The past, which... | |
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