| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...recoiling upon itself to find stability in universal scepticism: 'We wither from our youth, we ga*p away, Sick; sick; unfound the boon, unslaked the thirst, Though to the last, In verge of our decay, Koine phantom lures, such as we sought at first; But all too late; BO are we doubly curst. Love, fame,... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1882 - 432 pages
...philosophy of madness and misery, teaching that all happiness is shadowy, all aspiration futile. " We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick — sick ; unfound the boon — unslaked the thirst, Thouqb to the last, in verge of our decay, Some phantom lures, such as we sought al first — lint... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 308 pages
...l'alambic de l'esprit. CXXIV We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick — sick; unfound theboon1, unslaked the thirst, Though to the last, in verge...are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 't is the same, Each idle, and all ill, and none the worst — For all are meteors with a different... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...undone. CXXIV. We wither from our youth, we gasp away— Sick—sick; unfound the boon—unslaked the Though to the last, in verge of our decay, Some phantom lures, such as we sought at first— But all too late,—so we are doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice—'t is the same, Each idle—and all... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 pages
...turns, Fooling the follower, betwixt shade and shining.— Cuwp-eve. 2. Point out the silent letters: We wither from our youth, we gasp away, Sick; sick;...Some phantom lures, such as we sought at first.— Byron. 3. Discriminate the sounds of the vowels, give the class and sub-class of the consonants: A... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1885 - 176 pages
...stubborn heart, its alchemy begun, Seems ever near the prize, — wealthiest when most undone. CXXIV. We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick —...at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly cursed. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 't is the same, Each idle — and all ill — and none the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1885 - 420 pages
...winds; The stubborn heart, its alchemy begun, Seems ever near the prize — wealthiest when most undone. We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick —...last, in verge of our decay, Some phantom lures, such äs we sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 360 pages
...wealthiest when most undone. 124. We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick — sick ; tmfound the boon, unslaked the thirst, Though to the last, in verge of our decay, 1 1 1 o Some phantom lures, such as we sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst.... | |
| Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...the worm that hath eat of a King ; and eat of the fish that hath fed of that Worm. life. — Byron. WE wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick — sick ; unfound the boon — unslak'd the thirst, Though to the last, in verge of our decay, Some Phantom lures, such as we... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...youth, we gnsp awaySick sick; unfouiid the boon — unslaked the thirst, Though to the last, in ver^e ron i8i8. For all arc meteors with a different name, And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame.... | |
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