 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth: But whispering tongues can poison truth j And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny;...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 Bnt... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Beautiful exceedingly ! Л finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — Alas ! they had through her currents dash, To gain the Scottish land...Tradition, legend, tune, * Where shivered was fair Scotl And thus it chanced, as I diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...Alas, they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constaney dwells in realms above, And life is thorny, and youth is...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Koland and Sir Leoline. Each spoke words of high disdain And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Beautiful exceedingly ! A finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — Alas ! they had @\bjcj X{i R cfXKS itg i ixj SPa e )1P kj}j j{j|j d$\%\&\ \outh is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...constrained. But he was too much hurt to examine how far he was himself to blame ; for, as Coleridge says : " To be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ;" so he dashed on, regardless of every thing but his own bitter thoughts. Had he been less engrossed,... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...is scarcely possible to help feeling some anger at the author of the humiliation — and ' to Ъс wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.' It is thus that we often find our greatest vexations arise from what appear our greatest blessings,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ; And thus it chanc'd as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...should ring, ' Revenge for blood and treachery !' " SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...between Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain: And thus it chanc'il as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...and beauteous bride ! BROKEN FRIENDSHIP. [FROM THE UNFINISHED POEM OF CHRISTABEL.] ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...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 And... | |
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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. 
