 We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick — sick; unfound the boon — unslaked the thirst, Though to the last, in verge of our decay, Some phantom lures, such as we sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst, Love, fame,...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 801897Full view - About this book
 | William Robinson - 1866 - 374 pages
...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...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. ****** Our life is a false nature — 'tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...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...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. cxxv. Few — none — find what they love or could have loved, Though accident, blind contact, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 402 pages
...at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 't is the same, Each idle — and all ill — and none the...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. cxxv. Few — none — find what they love or could have loved, Though accident, blind contact, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...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...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. cxxv. Few — none — find what they love or could have loved, Though accident, blind contact, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly cursed. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tis the same, Each idle — and all ill — and none...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. CXXV. Few — none — find what they love or could havs loved, Though accident, blind contact, and... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...sought at first — But all too late,— so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'ris , Bu \ + *r-<i death the sable smoke where vanishes the cx.\v. IV.v — none — liiij what they lu\e or could... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1869 - 380 pages
...songht at first — Bnt all too late, — so arc we donbly cnrst Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tis the same, Each idle, and all ill, and none the...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. CXXV. Few — none — lind what they love or conld have loved, Thongh accident, blind contact, and... | |
 | John Richard Vernon - 1869 - 384 pages
...But all too late — so are we doubly curst, Love, fame, ambition, avarice, — 'tis the same, Kach idle, and all ill, and none the worst — For all...And death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame." Sad, unutterably sad, is it not ? And yet the inevitable end of such a course. Hear also the summing... | |
 | LANGFORD CECIL. - 1870 - 330 pages
...as we thought at first, But all too late,—so we are doubly curst. Love, Fame, Ambition, Avarice, 'tis the same, Each idle, and all ill, and none the...And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame." BYHON. g^VE'NING paper ! Eve'ning p'per! 'orrible murder on the h'Essex marshes. Eve'ning p'per! Star,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...'listhesame — Each idle, and all ill, and none the woist — ivy creep CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. # # # cxxv. Few — none — find what they love or could have loved : Though accident, blind contact, and... | |
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