 | 1830 - 342 pages
...human pride the bitter scourge. MS THE MYSTERIOUS HAND. BT THE AUTHOR OF " LORD MORCAR OF HEREWARD." '1 Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind." BTRON. LIFE has many sufferings and many ills. In childhood the sorrow is of the... | |
 | George Thompson, William Lloyd Garrison - 1836 - 230 pages
...dethroned ; see all the bright faculties of the soul gone astray ! Oh ! save them from this place, * Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, — nor e'en men mankind.' Let us strive to bring them back to society and to rational being ; let them, if... | |
 | George Thompson, William Lloyd Garrison - 1836 - 202 pages
...dethroned ; see all the bright faculties of the soul gone astray ! Oh ! save them from this place, ' Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a lungange, — nor e'en men mankind.' Let us strive to bring them back to society and to rational being;... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...it were my lot To be forgetful as I am forgot! — Feel I not wroth with those who bade me dwell lu this vast lazar-house of many woes? Where laughter...mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind; \Vhere cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate... | |
 | Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1837 - 544 pages
...nevertheless resolved to achieve, until the eleventh hour ; and my only feeling when I looked around me " Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind," in the Madhouse of Solimanie, was one of intense relief, on finding that my own... | |
 | Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1837 - 530 pages
...nevertheless resolved to achieve, until the eleventh hour; and my only feeling when I looked around me " Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind," in the Madhouse of Solimanie, was one of intense relief, on finding that my own... | |
 | Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1837 - 546 pages
...nevertheless resolved to achieve, until the eleventh hour ; and my only feeling when I looked around me " Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind," in the Madhouse of Solimanie, was one of intense relief, on finding that my own... | |
 | John Thomas Perceval - 1840 - 472 pages
...***** ' Mid sounds and sights like these long time I've passed. Feel I not wroth with those who made me dwell In this vast lazar-house of many woes? Where...nor thought the mind ; Nor words a language ; nor even men mankind : And each is tortured in his separate hell ! For we've no rest even in our solitudes,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...forgetful as I am forgot ! — Feel I not wroth with those who bade me dwell In this rast lazar-hoDse twas thine to write. But thou, at least, mine own especial pen! Once laid aside, but now as even men mankind ; When1 cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 pages
...mind. But should we repair to those abodes in which this dread malady presents its hideous forms, — " Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind. Nor words a language, nor e'en men mankind," — * we shall see much favourable evidence of our doctrine. When relatives and... | |
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Nor words a language, nor e'en men mankind ; Where cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate hell — For we are crowded in our solitudes — Many, but each divided by the wall Which echoes Madness in her babbling... 
