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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. And thus it chanced, as... "
Easy Poetry: a First Book of Selected Poems for Schools and Families - Page 81
by James Cornwell - 1870 - 144 pages
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Scripture Illustrated by Engravings: Designed from Existing Authorities ...

Bible - 1799 - 224 pages
...expected, therefore, this transaction widened this breach in their brotherly affection still more. They stood aloof; the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder. Esau, indeed, harboured revenge in his breast, and determined, when his father was dead, to put Jacob...
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The Literary Panorama and National Register

English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...And constancy lives in realm! abore , And life i« thorny and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And...To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood nloof, the ecars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A drrary sea now flows between,...
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Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1816 - 82 pages
...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. And thus it charic'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...expired, but leaving them an age •« , The original, our readers may recollect, is as follows:— " They stood aloof, the scars remaining Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, > Shall wholly do away, I ween, ••» C A dreary sea now...
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An Address to the Literary Members of the University

John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his...
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The Augustan review, Volume 3

1816 - 676 pages
...; 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. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 70

1816 - 612 pages
...lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and M>ntlt is vain; And to be wroth w ith one we Inve, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as 1 divine, W iiii Itoltind ;i:;tl Sir Leoliue. rn-li spake words of hipli di-dnin And insult to his...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 76

England - 1854 - 758 pages
...thorny ; and yonth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like maduess in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his...best brother; They parted — ne'er to meet again ! Bnt never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining; — They stood aloof, the scars...
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The Northern star, or, Yorkshire magazine, Volume 3

Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 pages
...speaking ot the estrangement of two who "had been friends in youth ; — '* But never either fonnd another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like clifls, which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost,...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...is vain; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain: And thus it chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake...high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother, And parted ne'er to meet again! But neither ever found another To free the hollow heart from paining...
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