 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 358 pages
...moderately fickle, Will hardly leave you (as she's not your wife) For any length of days in such a pickle. To strive, too, with our fate were such a strife As...circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." xvin. H 'Tis not," said Juan, " for my present doom A single tear upon his eyfcla^i-'staid A moment,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 360 pages
...moderately fickle, Will hardly leave you (as she's not your wife) For any length of days in such a pickle. To strive, too, with our fate were such a strife As...circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." XVIII. " 'Tis not," said Juan, " for my present doom I mourn, but for the past; — I loved a maid:"... | |
 | Richard King - 1836 - 370 pages
...hill or dale, nook or crevice, or wherever else they might have sheltered themselves. We are told: " Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." With us, however, there was no seeming in the case ; for we were actually sporting in and out and round... | |
 | George Home - 1837 - 364 pages
...moderately fickle, Will hardly leave you (as she's not your wife) For any length of days in such a pickle. To strive, too, with our fate, were such a strife...corn-sheaf should oppose the sickle. Men are the sport of circumstance, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." ALWAYS restless in my disposition, I waited... | |
 | William Shergold Browning - 1844 - 942 pages
...slightest doubt as to the necessity of a removal out of the duchy. CHAPTER XII. THE JOURNEY TO LONDON. Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. DCN J i AN. Furaivtd proceeded on his journey without obstacle ; Will Norton's abrupt departure gave... | |
 | 1874 - 990 pages
...Lydia, for the simple fellow still fancied that he had acted in this matter of his own free will. But Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. Put clever young women for circumstances in the foregoing distich, and you come nearer the springs... | |
 | William Shergold Browning - 1844 - 310 pages
...as to the necessity of a removal out of the duchy. 247 CHAPTER XII. THE JOURNEY TO LONDON. Men ale the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. DCN JUAN. Furnival proceeded on his journey without obstacle ; Will Norton's abrupt departure gave... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...in this sublime world, that Pleasure 'sa sin, and sometimes sin 'sa pleasure. BYRON'S Don Juan. 28. Men are the sport of circumstances when The circumstances seem the sport of men. BYRON'S Don Juan. 29. Man 'sa strange animal, and makes strange use Of his own nature and the various... | |
 | Alfred Jackson, Effingham Wilson - 1849 - 222 pages
...equal chance of success than appears probable, for we should see exemplified the truth of the axiom, " Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." It is well, however, we do not see into these depths. Man's energy springs from hope, and hope can... | |
 | 1886 - 574 pages
...Heamoor, Penzance. MAN THE CREATCRK OF CIRCUMSTANCKB.— Lord Byron says (' Don Juan,' v. 17) : — Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. Helvetia (' De 1'Esprit,' ii. 306) has it : — "Nous somraes nniquementce quo nous font les objeti... | |
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For any length of days in such a pickle. To strive, too, with our fate were such a strife As if the corn-sheaf should oppose the sickle : Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. 
