 | David MacFadyen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 224 pages
...discrepancy between idealism and the intrusion of reality. Epistle to Augusta documents this discrepancy: "My whole life was a contest, since the day / That gave me being, gave that which marr'd / The gift, - a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; / And I at times have found the... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1904 - 790 pages
...anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." (c) " Mine were my faults and mine be their reward, My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave me being, gave me that which manM The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray." (d) " O Lady ! we receive but what we give,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward, pty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying marred% The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray : And I at times have found the struggle... | |
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The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. 
