 Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.  The woman of genius [by mrs. Ross]. - Page 143by mrs. Ross - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Camden Elizabeth Lambert - 1838 - 1014 pages
...shedding beauty and sweetness where all beside seems but a dreary waste. CHAPTER XIII. Al.is ! they bad been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we lore, Doth work like madness in the brain. Coltriilgt. Mais toi, console-moi — viens — conscns... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1838 - 1048 pages
...manycoloured ribbons of the Sullivans, she left the region of the past. D2 FITZHERBERT. CHAPTER III. " And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain." COLERIDGE. HENRY Fitzherbert was for the first time in his life really and passionately in... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy dwell* in realms above, And life is thorny. Youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madrrass on the brain. So chanc'd it once as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline — They parted,... | |
 | Canadian poetry - 1838 - 746 pages
...with a dash of careless and melancholy humour, " O, Deborah, I see now how it is with you— . • To be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.' You cannot mean all this bitterness against me! Do you forget telling me all about O'Reilly... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...And Bess has stolen away to talk With Roger in the holly-walk. Kllilvi: WHITE. FRIENDSHIP DESTROYED. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...And life is thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wrath with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...along the wave, As dives a hero headlong to his grave." BYRON — The Island, c. ii. st. xvi. II. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline, Each spake words of high disdain,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...down along the wave, As dives a hero headlong to his grave." BYRON—The Island, c. ii. st. xvi. 11. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline, Each spake words of high disdain,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...name, Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again. Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryennainc ? beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which niadiiesn in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Kolnnd nnd Sir Leoline. Each spake words... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1841 - 276 pages
...he grew angry, and called her firmness obstinacy, and her calmness want of feeling. And then (for " To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain,") he left her with words of unkindness and reproaches, which, unjust as they were, were nevertheless... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 pages
...beauty of the " lady of a far countrie," when we read these among other musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."... | |
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