 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 sider
...I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling, So that it ween — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He, who grown aged in this... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 sider
...be, that in vain I would essay as I have sung to sing. Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling, So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness—so it fling Forgetfulness around me—it shall seem To me,, though to none else, a not ungrateful... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 sider
...I would essay as I have sung to sing. Tet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling, So that it ween me from the weary dream Of selfish grief or gladness — so it fling Forgetfulncss around me — it shall 'seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He,... | |
 | 1856 - 642 sider
...disjointed world and nature of ours, could its candour but overcome its caution, would echo the wail — And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. We may add the expression of our personal belief, that in the most genial and humorous natures,tbe... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, William Maltby - 1856 - 372 sider
..." What a wonderful man that Shakespeare is ! how perfectly I now feel the truth of his words, — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep" ! I happened to repeat to Mrs. N. what Moore had said ; upon which she observed, " Why, the passage... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1856 - 868 sider
...observations which he felt himself bound to make, to avoid giving anything like offence to any one. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ' Tis that I may not weep." Every one knew what the real meaning of the Bill was. It was a measure to settle and limit the prerogative... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 434 sider
..." What a wonderful man that Shakespeare is ! how perfectly I now feel the truth of his words, — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ! " I happened to repeat to Mrs. N. what Moore had said ; upon which she observed, " Why, the passage... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 398 sider
...in town, I quoted one day to Rogers, as Shakspeare's, and as beautiful, the following lines : — " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." * The next time we met, I found he had been in quest of the lines, thinking as I did of them, and it... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 sider
...pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first m the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 sider
...MOORE.} 1 [" And the rent canvass tattering." — MS.] Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling ¡ r than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three...tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He, who grown aged in this... | |
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He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife... 
