 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pages
...unteach mankind the lust to rule,' he describes their nature and their fate in these fine stanzas : ' Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
 | 1816 - 692 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last. That should their days, surviving perils past, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, Melt to calm... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...agitation , and their life A strom whereon the). ride, to sink at last, And yet so nnrs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils...calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and suuincncss, and so die; Even as a flame unfed, which rims to waste With its own dickering, or a sword... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...breast laid, open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule : XLIV. /•. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
 | 1821 - 658 pages
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness — " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
 | 1821 - 656 pages
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness — " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pages
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness— " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule: Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm...as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickerings, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. INVOCATION TO NEMESIS.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...perils past, Melt to ealm twilight, they feel overeast AVith sorrow and supineness, and so dic ; F.ven as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a' sword laid hy Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. XL1V. XLV. , He who aacends to mountain-tops, shall... | |
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Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, And are themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach... 
