 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.  Lord Byron's Works ... - Page 218by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...displays throughout to make his lordship appear more sinned against thau sinning : FARE THEE WELL. ' Alas ! they had been friends in youth.; But whispering...And constancy lives in realms above : And life is thomjr ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain •... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...name. Why wai'd Sir Leoline so pale. Murmuring o'er the name again. Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine? Alas! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...constancy lives in realms above , And life is thorny; and youtb is rain : And to be wroth with one we lore. Doth work like madness iu the brain. And thus it... | |
 | 1831 - 596 pages
...whole it has no meaning, and yet is exceedingly interesting. The following passage is beautiful. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ******** They parted — ne'er to meet again ; But never either found another To free the hollow heart... | |
 | 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 And thus it chanced, as 1 divine, Wilh Roland and Sir Leolino. Kach «pake words of high disdain And... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 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...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 either found... | |
 | 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...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 disdain And... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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...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 disdain And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 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...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 disdain And... | |
 | 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... | |
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