My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. National Review - Seite 91857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1846 - 512 Seiten
...affectingly expressed the experience of men of mirth and pleasure, in all time, and in every nation. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser...takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please ; Are quiet when... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 Seiten
...with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd. For the aame sound is in my ears Which In those days 1 heard. Thus fares it still in our decay; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what time takes away, Than what he leaves behind. Well, time cures every wound, and though the scar may... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 430 Seiten
...sad to say of a country, It has been free. It is sad to say of a country, as of an individual, that " The wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away, Than what it leaves behind." The critics are trying to mystify the historical grandeur of Switzerland, casting the blur of doubt and... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 Seiten
...sad to say of a country, It has been free. It is sad to say of a country, us of an individual, that " The wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away, Than what it leaves behind." CHAP, xix.] CRITICAL INFIDELITY. 121 The critics are trying to mystify the historical grandeur of Switzerland,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 376 Seiten
...Has oftener left me mourning."33 or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser...takes away Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill,. Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 Seiten
...oftener left me mourning."33 ' or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. " Tims fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind...takes away Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 380 Seiten
...Has oftener left me mourning."33 or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. a1 [Coleridge's Poet. Works, vol. i., p. 208. SC] 32 [Star-Gazers, stanzas 3-6. PW, ii., p. 98. SC]... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 Seiten
...sad to say of a country, It has been free. It is sad to say of a country, as of an individual, that " The wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind." The critics are trying to mistify the historical grandeur of Switzerland, casting the blur of doubt and... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 242 Seiten
...sad to say of a country, It has been free. It is sad to say of a country, as of an individual, that " The wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away, Than what it leaves behind." The critics are trying to mystify the historical grandeur of Switzerland, casting the blur of douht and... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 704 Seiten
...repeated i * My eyes are dim with childish tee-.. My heart ¡«idly stirr'd, For the same sound if in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it ¿till in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what rime takes away, Than what he leaves... | |
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