...abiding refreshment ; love, fame, every pleasure and every excitement, — all had been tried : — " Each idle, — and all ill, — and none the worst,...death the sable smoke, where vanishes the flame." These words well express the bitter moral, which existence taught the noble poet and his school. Of...

...sought at first ; But all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice, 'tis the same ; Each idle, and all ill, and none the worst,...meteors with a different name, And death the sable smoke whc vanishes the flame.' Childe Harold, iv. Two or more of these mottoes might be inserted on each...

...sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice— 'tis the same, Each idle, and all ill, and none the worst — For all are meteors with a different name, 1115 And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. Cxxv Few— none — find what they love or...