 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 686 Seiten
...images of things, For the selection of the pausing judgment.' The remark in ' Don Juan,' iv, st. iv— ' And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep' —looks very like a reminiscence of Richardson's ' Pamela' (Letter Ixxxiv) :— 'It is to this deep... | |
 | Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 Seiten
...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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...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 lling Forgetf'ulness around me—it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme.... | |
 | 1821 - 518 Seiten
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring Thetis baptized her mortal son in Styx;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 238 Seiten
...yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring Ere what we least wish to behold will... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 Seiten
...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 - 1821 - 308 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 Seiten
...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] "Tis that our nature cannot always bring Such is not... | |
 | 1822 - 980 Seiten
...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, Tig that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] Such is not the... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 Seiten
...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Such is not... | |
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So that it wean me from the weary dream Of selfish grief, or gladness !—so it fling Forgetfulness around me ! " Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep ;—and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... 
