Cut to his heart again with the keen knife Of silent, sharp endurance: he can tell Why thought seeks refuge in lone caves, yet rife With airy images, and shapes which dwell Still unimpair'd, though old, in the soul's haunted cell. The Sale-room - Page 2091817Full view - About this book
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...Forgetfulaess around me— it shall seem , To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years,...life, So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can Jove, or sorrow, fame, ambition, •trite, [knife Cut to his heart again with the keen Of silent, sharp... | |
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...fling forgetfulness around him ; ' and thus continues to advert to his own state of mind : " He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, CEIT. REV. VOL. IV. Nov. 1816. 3 S So thai no wonder waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame,... | |
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...it fling forgetfulness around him;' and thus continues to advert to his own state of mind: " He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of lite, CHIT. REV. VOL. IV. AW 1816. 3 S So that no wonder waits him; nor below Can love, or sorrow,... | |
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...Forgetfulness around me— it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. Y. • He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wander waits him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife, Cut to his heart again with... | |
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...seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He, who grown aged in this world of wo, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waitsftim ; nor helow Can love, or sorrow, fame, amhition, strife, Cut to his heart again with the... | |
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...none else, a not ungrateful theme. He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deedg,notyears,piercing itude, the most infected And Centaur Nessus garb of mortal geeks refuge in lone caves, yet rife With airy images, and shapes which dwell Still unimpair'd, though... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...Forgetfulness around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder wails him ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife, Cm to his heart agiin wiih the keen... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...Forgetfuluess aronnd me— it shall seem To me, thongh to none else, a not ungrateful theme. v. He , who grown aged In this world of woe. In deeds, not years,...knife ' Of silent, sharp endurance: he can tell Why thonght secks refnge in lone caves, vet rift With airy images, and shapes which dwell Still unimpair'd,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...Forgetfulness around me — it shall seem To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme. V. He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years,...piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits Rim ; nor below Can love, or sorrow, fame, ambition, strife, Cut to his heart again with the keen knife... | |
| Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 pages
...would have introduced the figure in the fifth line, but for the necessity of the rhyme:— " He, who grown aged in this world of woe. In deeds, not years,...again with the keen knife Of silent, sharp endurance." This must be felt to be exceedingly harsh, and even incongruous. The figure is bad, and the expression... | |
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