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" 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. "
The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle - Page 452
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 7

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 720 pages
...waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name agam, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and...
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The Poems of S. T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 328 pages
...waxed 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 tongues...thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Eoland and...
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Wise Sayings of the Great and Good

Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...friend. Cause and Cure of a wounded Conscience, Dialogue iv. THOS. FULLER. FRIENDSHIP. Broken Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...is thorny; and youth is vain: And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. Christabel. — SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. FRIENDSHIP....
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Waverly Novels, Volume 49

Walter Scott - 1864 - 384 pages
...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 tongues...is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to his...
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 1

Horace Greeley - 1864 - 694 pages
...regard to the domestic relations of Herod. * Witness Lundy and Garrison at Boston, 1828. 1 " Alas 1 they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...is thorny and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with oju; we love, Doth work like madness on the brain." — Coleridge's Christdbel. XI. THE PRO-SLAVERY...
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Poetry for repetition, ed. by H. Twells

Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen. WORDSWORTH. 70. THE DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain J And to be wroth with one we lore, Doth work like madness in the brain And thus it chanced, as I divine,...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...Part iv. Port v. Part vii. Ibid. CHRISTABEL. And the Spring comes slowly up this way. Part i. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. Part ii. Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place,...
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Chambers's readings in English poetry

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...rising sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. BROKEN FRIENDSHIP. From Christabel. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and...
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...bastard Sonne, whose foolish fault to death him selfe hath domic. T. WATSON A 569 SEVERED FRIENDSHIP AS ! they had been friends in youth ; but whispering tongues...thorny ; and youth is vain ; and to be wroth with one we love, doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, with Roland and...
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English literature and composition

Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 pages
...And hence the egregious wizard shall foredoom The fall of Louis and the fall of Rome.' (21) ' Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.' (22) ' If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,...
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