 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 Seiten
...themselves the fools to those they fool : Envied, jet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind...storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
 | 1816 - 692 Seiten
...themselves the fools to those they fool: Envied, jet how unenviable! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind...their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last. That should their days, surviving perils past, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, Melt to calm... | |
 | 1816 - 572 Seiten
...unteach mankind the lust to rule,' he describes their nature and their fate in these fine stanzas : ' Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
 | 1816 - 574 Seiten
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 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 Seiten
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yej how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs? One breast laid, open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule : XLIV. /•. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last,... | |
 | 1821 - 656 Seiten
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness — " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
 | 1821 - 658 Seiten
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness — " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
 | 1822 - 690 Seiten
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness— " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
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Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, And are themselves the fools to those they fool... 
