 | William Robert Wilde - 1844 - 674 pages
...tax their humanity by asking them to linger longer with those who dwell " In this vast lazar house of many woes, Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind : Where cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...I have been patient, let me be so yet ; I had forgotten half I would forget;But it revives — oh ! would it were my lot To be forgetful as I am forgot...mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind ; Where cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...I have been patient, let me be so yet, I had forgotten half 1 would forget, But it revives — Oh ! would it were my lot To be forgetful as I am forgot...mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind ; Where cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1851 - 816 pages
...little poem with indifference. " Oh ! would it were my lot To be forgetful, as I am forgot. Feel 1 not wroth with those who bade me dwell In this vast...nor thought the mind, Nor words a language — nor even men mankind . Feel I not wroth with those who placed me here, Blighting my life in best of its... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...forgot ! — Feel I not wroth with those who bade me dwell In this vast lazar-house of many woea ! Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind ; Where cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Day - 1848 - 62 pages
...living-tomb; A life of death, in which is felt The darkness which no sun may melt ! " CONCLUSION. " Here laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor e'en men mankind." BYRON — Lament of Tasso. I HAVE, I trust, succeeded in conveying to the reader's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...have been patient, let me be so yet ; I had forgotten half I would forget, But it revives — Oh ! would it were my lot To be forgetful as I am forgot...the mind, Nor words a language, nor ev'n men mankind j 3 [During the early part of Tasso's confinement he hail one of those gaolers "with worse than frenzy... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...forgetful as I am forgot! — • Feel I not wroth with those who bade me dwell In this vast luzar-house of many woes? Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind ; Where cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate... | |
 | Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...each other to drink without appetite, to linger without motive, and to revel without enjoyment, • " Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind, Nor words a language, nor even men mankind." If you fear that local influences may indulge individuals at the risk of the public,... | |
 | Harriet Jacobs - 1862 - 668 pages
...lining. I forgot that in the land of my birth the shadows are too dense for light to penetrate. A land " Where laughter is not mirth ; nor thought the mind ; Nor words a language ; nor e'en men mankind. Where cries reply to curses, shrieks to blows, And each is tortured in his separate... | |
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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... 
