 | James Payn - 1894 - 206 Seiten
...dried whence the young draw hopes too deep for the faith of the sage ? And, like the flower that closes up when the east begins to glow, Doth the maiden's...feigned sorrow, or to mock us while they please? All this world a scene phantasmal, shifting aye to something strange, Such as, if but disenchanted, one... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 828 Seiten
...dried whence the young draw hopes too deep for the faith of the sage ? And, like the flower that closes up when the east begins to glow, Doth the maiden's beauty fade from off her tender cheek and brow 1 Are they all but subtle spirits changing into those and these, To vex us with a feigned sorrow, or... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1906 - 316 Seiten
...dried whence the young draw hopes too deep for the faith of the sage? And, like the flower that closes up when the east begins to glow, Doth the maiden's...feigned sorrow, or to mock us while they please? All this world a scene phantasmal, shifting aye to something strange, Such as, if but disenchanted, one... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 684 Seiten
...dried whence the young draw hopes too deep for the faith of the sage ? And, like the flower that closes up when the east begins to glow, Doth the maiden's...a feigned sorrow, or to mock us while they please 1 All this world a scene phantasmal, shifting aye to something strange, Such as, if but disenchanted,... | |
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... closed behind us, and the voices died away, Do the singers cease their singing, and the children end their play? Do the words of wisdom well no more through the calm lips of age? Are the fountains dried whence the young draw hopes too deep for the... 