Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die;... The New Monthly Magazine - Page 1661822Full view - About this book
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
| 1816 - 572 pages
...unteach mankind the lust to rule,' he describes their nature and their fate in these fine stanzas : ' Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
| English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...not know or need. Though the mode of education now prevalent introduces us first to fiction, — to Robinson Crusoe, to Ovid, to Virgil, and leaves us...gorgeous promises of youth. But we grow marvellously heroic — quite Zimmermannish, and why ? all to prove that gray hairs are as dignified over Ariosto... | |
| 1821 - 662 pages
...ideality undermines the heart and obliterates the feelings, absorbs the mind in selfish ejaculation and isolates it in itself. Amusement becomes business,...gorgeous promises of youth. But we grow marvellously heroic — quite Zimmermannish, and why ? all to prove that gray hairs are as dignified over Ariosto... | |
| 1821 - 658 pages
...ideality undermines the heart and obliterates the feelings, absorbs the mind in selfish speculation nnd isolates it in itself. Amusement becomes business,...gorgeous promises of youth. But we grow marvellously heroic — quite Zimmermannish, and why ? all to prove that gray hairs are as dignified over Ariostoor... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...breast laid, open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule : XLIV. /•. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule : XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule: Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
| John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...theirs ! One Bteast laid open were a school /Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule : " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last ; And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule • XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
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