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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. "
Lectures on the English Comic Writers - Page 193
by William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 pages
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Christabel: Kubla Khan : a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...CHRISTABEL. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to meet...
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An Address to the Literary Members of the University

John Bickerton - 1816 - 70 pages
...name. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again...
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Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 82 pages
...name, Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it charic'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to...
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The Augustan review, Volume 3

1816 - 676 pages
...which appears to us to be the vilest jargon we ever had toe misfortune to read : " Alas! they hail been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to...
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The Literary Panorama and National Register

1816 - 592 pages
...; But Ť• hispcring tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realm! abore , And life iŤ thorny and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one...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 insult to his...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 70

1816 - 612 pages
...tbe pasťage which contains it: — " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But nhUp'rinir ionguos can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and M>ntlt is vain; And to be wroth w ith one we Inve, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: The siege of Corinth. Parisina ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 212 pages
...before thee, To listen and adore thee ; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But whispering...poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above: And Dfe is thorny ; andyouth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1824 - 984 pages
...acquainted with poetry, it is appropriated to its author. Mr. Coleridge's original is in Chrlstabel. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth Ą Ала constancy lives in realms above : And life is thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 76

1854 - 758 pages
...whispering tongues can poison trnth : And constancy dwells in realms above; And life is thorny ; and yonth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like maduess in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother; They...
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...metaphysical jargon. He has no genuine dramatic talent. There is one fine passage in his Christobel, that which contains the description of the quarrel...chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother, And parted ne'er to meet again!...
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