 | William Blake - 1866 - 108 pages
...day are wasted in play And your winter and night in disguise. THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE. LOVE seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care...its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. So sung a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet : But a pebble of the brook Warbled out... | |
 | 1879
...Pur mi consola, che morir per lei Meglio.e che gioir d' ultra.' He sings with Blake, ' Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair.' ' In hell's despair' Petrarch 'built himself a heaven.' An unrequited passion does one thing or another... | |
 | George Eliot - 1871
...were poor, and "lived in a small way." However, they did not mind it. 48 CHAPTER XXV. ' Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care....gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. Love seeketh only self to please. To bind another to its delight. Joys in another's loss of ea.se,... | |
 | 1872
...fruitful breath With the spirit of her God ! — [Golden ASŤ. THE CLOD AJID THE PEBBLE. — Love secketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care...Warbled out these metres meet : Love seeketh only sel to please. To bind another to Its delight, Joys in anothers loss of ease. And builds a hell in... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1872 - 264 pages
...hopeful; she hopes on and hopes ever. She alone " builds a heaven in hell's despair : — " Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair." , W. Blake. 168. Luxury. — Do not bring your child, however rich he might be, up to luxury; make... | |
 | George Eliot - 1872
...were poor, and " lived in a small way." However, they did not mind it. CHAPTER XXV. ' Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873
...were poor, and " lived in a small way." However, they did not mind it. CHAPTER XXV. " Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...gives its ease. And builds a heaven in hell's despair. * t • * * " Love eeeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss... | |
 | William Blake - 1874
...day are wasted in play And your winter and night in disguise. THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE. LOVE seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care...its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. So sung a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet ; But a pebble of the brook Warbled out... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878
...were poor, and " lived in a email way." However, they did not mind it. 385 CHAPTEE XXV. " Love seeketh not itself to please. Nor for itself hath any care,...gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. Love seeketh only self to please. To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And... | |
 | Albert Dresden Vandam - 1878
...Pur mi consola, che morir per lei Meglio e che gioir d'altra." He sings with Blake — " Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair." " In hell's despair" Petrarch " built himself a heaven." An unrequited passion does one thing or another... | |
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Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet:... 
