| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 120 sider
...wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that by the winter hearth F Old gossips tell ; how maidens sprung from kings Have...palace of a fairy future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And, with... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1839 - 380 sider
...like the picture ?" This is my bridal home, and Ikon my bridegroom ! SCENE ii.] OR, LOVE AND PRIDE. 45 0 fool — O dupe — O wretch ! — I see it all...palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And, with... | |
| 1840 - 824 sider
...his late father's young mistress. " Love," he tells her " levels all ranks." Thus I passed my hours In the soft palace of a fairy future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own Lord. Then did I seek to rise Ont of the prison of my mean estate; And, with... | |
| George T. Fisher, William Alfred Delamotte, F. G. Delamotte - 1845 - 104 sider
...which has often struck me forcibly, and which I may as well mention ; and that is, that tobacco, -" Like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the sceptre." There is nothing else, that I know of, that does so as effectually. I do remember that it has been... | |
| Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 634 sider
...the breast of the wild-dreaming boy ; And from that hour I grew — what to the last I shall be^thine adorer ! Well ! this love, Vain, frantic, guilty,...palace of a fairy Future ! My father died; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And, with... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1849 - 332 sider
...power upon thee. — From my first years, my soul was fill'd with thee: I saw thee midst the fiow'rs the lowly boy Tended, unmark'd by thee — a spirit...palace of a fairy Future ! My father died; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; \nA, with... | |
| 398 sider
...thought of tales that by the winter hearth Old gossips tell— how maidens sprung from King Have stooped from their high sphere; how Love like Death, Levels...Thus I made my home In the soft palace of a fairy I utuie I My father died ; and I, the peasant born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1853 - 202 sider
...Were made a living thing, and wore thy shape ! I saw thee, and the passionate heart of man Enter' d the breast of the wild-dreaming boy. And from that...palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And, with... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 412 sider
...of tales that by the winter hearth Old gossips tell — how maidens sprung from Kings Have stoop' d from their high sphere ; how Love, like Death, Levels...palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And, with... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 sider
...of tales that by the winter hearth Old gossips tell — how maidens sprung from kings Have stooped from their high sphere ; how Love like Death, Levels...palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And, with... | |
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