 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine he theirreward: My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave me heing, gave me that which marr'd The gift— a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...with defensive paradox ; I have been eunning in mine overthrow, The eareful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward My whole life was a eontest, sinee the day That gave me being, gave me that whieh marr'd The gift, — a fate, or will,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...with defensive paradox; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. better days of our history. For me,— " Non movero...ciance assorda." What Italy has gained by the late tran gift,—a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1885 - 420 pages
...that gave me being" — is the natural cry of such minds ; and for such the poet said : " At times 1 have found the struggle hard, and thought of shaking off my bonds of clay." Abnormal individualism is the name which this mental condition suggests to the worldly mind. What do... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep," he says in " Don Juan." " Mine were my faults, and mine he their reward. My whole life was a contest since the...The gift — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray." Instead of rising above disappointments, as a great nature should, Byron became misanthropic over them.... | |
 | Otto Schmidt - 1890 - 194 pages
...meilleur des hommes. 1) Je n'ai plus rien d'un homme ordinaire. 8) — The day That gave me being, yave me that which marr'd The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray.9) This man Is of no common Order . . . .... Ms powers and will .... have been such As clay... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...with defensive paradox ; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My...since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marr'cl The gift,—a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; And 1 at times have found the struggle hard,... | |
 | Marietta Holley - 1895 - 742 pages
...most everybody sometimes feels jest about so, jest so kinder curous to know what is comin' next — " My whole life was a contest since the day That gave me being — And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay ; But... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 112 pages
...with defensive paradox; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. » Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My...astray; And I at times have found the struggle hard, 30 And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - 1898 - 7 pages
...brought about his ruin : — " I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. "Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My...The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray." I cannot refrain from quoting, by way of contrast, the words of Mrs. Shelley in regard to her wayward... | |
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And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. 
