| William Blake - 1866 - 132 pages
...and your 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...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 - 612 pages
...sacrifice : ' 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...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 - 392 pages
...Garths 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...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 - 332 pages
...fruitful breath With the spirit of her God ! — [Golden AS«. 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... | |
| George Eliot - 1872 - 400 pages
...the Garths 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...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... | |
| Pye Henry Chavasse - 1872 - 298 pages
...is 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...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... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...the Garths 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...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 - 194 pages
...and your 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...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... | |
| Albert Dresden Vandam - 1878 - 390 pages
...sacrifice. " 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...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... | |
| Annie Keary - 1879 - 384 pages
...from rushing into the post-office and demanding to have it returned. CHAPTER XIII. " EETREAT." " Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath...despair." So sang a little clod of clay, Trodden with the catties' feet, Bnt a pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet : " Love seeketh only self to... | |
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