 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...thy great delight, Good dost thou ne'er foretel nor bring to pass. u. BBYANT'S Homer's Iliad Bk. I. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than...midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase "I told yon so." «. BIBON — Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 50. Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...Good dost thou ne'er foretel nor bring to pass. u. BBYANT'S Homer's Iliad Bk. I. Line 38. Of ¡ill the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs...midnight blast : Is that portentous phrase " I told yon so." r. BYKON — Don Juan. Canto'XIV. St. 50. Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...have not quailed to danger's brow When high and happy — need I now? 54 Byron : Giaour. Line 1035, Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than...should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at iast, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst " bonos mores," With a long memorandum of old stories. 55... | |
 | Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 pages
...Baillie: A Summers Day. (27) The boding owl that hails the rising moon. — Cmvper: The So/a. (28) Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than...blast, Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so." — Don Juan. (29) To the screaming owl's accursed song Attune the dreadful workings of his heart.... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 270 pages
...than owl songs on the midnight blast — 8Is that portentous phrase — '" I told you so" — 'Uttered by ... friends — those prophets of the past —...— "stead of saying what you now should do — 'Own — \\\ey foresa-w — that you would fall at last — 3And solace your slight lapse 'gainst " bonos... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 pages
...of the owl's song by Don Juan — " Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, ' I told you so.' " It is said that if a dog howl under a dying man's window he is sure to die that night. This may be... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...to-morrow with prophetic ray ! t) BYBON — Bride of Abydos. Canto II. St. 20. PROPHECY. PROVERBS. 493 lds which promise corn and wiue, And scatter'd cities...white walls along them shine. a. BYBON— Chttdc Ha a. BYRON— Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 50. The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world... | |
 | 1896 - 240 pages
...friends long lost. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv, 12. Assume a virtue if you have it not. HAMLBT, iii, 4. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than...blast, Is that portentous phrase, " I told you so." Byron, DON JOAN, xiv. A bad quarter of an hour. Rabeiais. Come what may, I have been bless'd. A sadder... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - 228 pages
...That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. — SAMUEL ROGERS. 6. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than...blast, Is that portentous phrase, " I told you so." — GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 7. There's a divinity that shapes our ends Hough-hew them how we will.... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 pages
...pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. — Shakespeare : • Comedy of Errors* Act II. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than...do. Own they foresaw that you would fall at last. — Byron : * Don Juan, * Canto xiv. Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. — Shakespeare. • Perfumes,... | |
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I told you so," Ulter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst " bonos mores," With a long memorandum of old stories. 
