 | Xavier Mayne, Edward Prime-Stevenson - 1975 - 224 pages
.... . and surely that night I thought long, long thoughts till I finally slept. MASKS AND -A FACE. c My whole life was a contest since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift... < A silent suffering and intense...-. All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...The careful pilot of my proper woe. IV. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole Ufe rdsworth Editions hare found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: Bat now I fain would for... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...defensive paradox; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. IV 25 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 2000 - 134 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...struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of day. But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. Kingdoms and... | |
 | David MacFadyen - 2000 - 224 pages
...discrepancy between idealism and the intrusion of reality. Epistle to Augusta documents this discrepancy: "My whole life was a contest, since the day / That gave me being, gave that which marr'd / The gift, - a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; / And I at times have found the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...with defensive paradox ; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor, but an empty...still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying marred% The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray : And I at times have found the struggle... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1904 - 790 pages
...already told you what you can." (6) "Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." (c) " Mine were my faults and mine be their reward, My whole...since the day That gave me being, gave me that which manM The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray." (d) " O Lady ! we receive but what we give,... | |
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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. 
