 We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick — sick; unfound the boon — unslaked the thirst, Though to the last, in verge of our decay, Some phantom lures, such as we sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst, Love, fame,...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 801897Full view - About this book
 | 1879 - 820 pages
...as we sought at first ; But all too late, — so are we donbh curst. Love, fame, ambition, avaries, 'tis the same ; Each idle, and all ill, and none the...And death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame.' Ghilde Harold, iv. 124. Two or more of these mottoes might be inserted on each face of the pedestal.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...we sought at first— Rut all too late, — so are we douhly curst. Love, fame, amhition, avarice— ities, merely served to flatter Fair Catharine's pastime,...who look'd on the match Between these nations as a m denth the sahle smoke where vanishes the cxxv. Few — none — find what they love or could have loved... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tis the same, Each idle — and all ill — and none...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pages
...sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tis the same, Each idle — and all ill — and none...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,. Liberty ! thou art,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1881 - 326 pages
...verge of our decay, Bat all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Lore, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tis the same, Each idle — and all ill — and none...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art,... | |
 | Frederick Charles Woodhouse - Devotional literature - 1881 - 392 pages
...sought at first — But all too late — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tis the same, Each idle, and all ill, and none the...And death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame." BYRON. " I would be great, but that the stm doth still Level his rays against the rising hill : I would... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1881 - 348 pages
...longer. " The things which are seen are temporal." " Love, fame, ambition, avarice, 'tis the same ; For all are meteors with a different name, And death the sable smoke, where vanishes the flame." Nay, this very earth of ours, which seems the very emblem of permanence, is doomed to come to an end.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 pages
...firstBui all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tisthesame — v RXB0 gU , IQ * % l bn # & 7 ) s x^ iR e$D7l `D ,1 different name, And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. cxxv. Few— none — find what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...But all too late, — so are we doubly eurst. Love, fame, ambition, avariee — 'tis the same, Eaeh idle — and all ill — and none the worst — For all are meteors with a difivrent name, And Death the sable emoke where vanishes the flame. osxv. Few — none — find what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...ambition, avarice— 'tis the same— F.ach idle, and all ill, and none the worst — For all are metenrs with a different name. And death the sable smoke where vanishes the name. ex xv. Few— none— find what they love or could have loved : Though accident, blind contact,... | |
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