 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...with defensive paradox ; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. p8 . surviYe, If but to see what next can well arrive. 2 JO 211 Kingdoms and empires in my little day I... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1913 - 274 pages
...the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift, • — a fate, or will, that walked astray; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: •30 But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. Kingdoms and... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...with defensive paradox; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. , I take my little porringer, And eat my supper there....the church-yard she was laid; And, when the grass 30 But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. Kingdoms and empires... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...with defensive paradox; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper1 woe. 25 rge Benjamin 20 And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to... | |
 | Ralph Gordon Noel Milbanke Lovelace (2d earl of), Ralph Milbanke Earl of Lovelace - 1921 - 426 pages
...with defensive paradox ; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward, My...— a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at tunes have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. 25 My whole life was a contest ; since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1924 - 486 pages
...with defensive paradox ; I have been cunniug in mine overthrow. The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My...found the struggle hard. And thought of shaking off ray bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time surviye, If but to see what next can well arrive.... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 pages
...with defensive paradox ; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My...that which marr'd The gift,— a fate, or will, that walk'il astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard. And thought of shaking off my bonds of... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...with defensive paradox ; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward, My whole life \ras a contest, since the day That gavn me being gave me that which marred The gift, — a fate, or... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - 1975 - 494 pages
...with defensive paradox; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My...marr'd The gift— a fate, or will, that walk'd astray . . . That 'fate, or will' is a relevant comment on the lines on Lady Byron, and 1 have been cunning... | |
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And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. 
