 | 1907 - 390 pages
...express themselves upon the nature of love as a factor in life. Thus says the Clod :— Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care...gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. But the Pebble's opinion is that Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight ;... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 420 pages
...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 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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 426 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1925 - 488 pages
...own redeeming irrationalties. It is divinely wasteful ; it is abandonment or nothing. It " Seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for Itself hath any care, But for another gives It ease, And builds a heaven In hell's despair." There is a kind of noble extravagance in human love,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1910 - 280 pages
...all to myself.' It is not love at all, it is self-love ; and it makes life a hell. ' Love seeketb. 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 these... | |
 | 1910 - 200 pages
...in the night, An infant crying for the light. And with no language but a cry. TENNYSON. Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. WILLIAM BLAKE. The instinct to protect and cherish life is indestructibly innate in every one, but... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 pages
...itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.' So sung ed: — "> ' Powers and dominions, deities of heaven ; For since no deep within her gulf can hold meters meet : 'Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, » Joys in another's... | |
 | Maria Theresa Earle - 1911 - 450 pages
...suggested that sweeping a crossing was better than nothing. CHAPTER VII MY EARLIEST MEMORIES 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... | |
 | Pierre Berger - 1914 - 444 pages
...as to subject but classical in style, in which he gives us his two conceptions of love. 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 these... | |
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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:... 
