| 1900 - 608 Seiten
...production, ' Don Juan,' he tells us that his ' sere fancy has fallen ' into the yellow leaf : ' — ' And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.' It was in ' Beppo : a Venetian Story ' that he dropped, for the first time, the weapon of trenchant... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 Seiten
...mellow, And other minds aknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy' ,, falls into the yellow ,,Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk IV. And if I laugh at any mortal tiiing, Tis that I may not weep ; and if I \vecp, 'Tis that eur nature... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 232 Seiten
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy ' ' falls into the yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk II. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature... | |
| William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 Seiten
...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may...our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] Such is not the experience of the Christian, who, weeping with those that... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 Seiten
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 372 Seiten
...grief, or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I...our nature cannot always bring " Itself to apathy" &c. " the habit of sending Hobhouse, to whom I wrote on my " first wedding-day, and continue to write... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 Seiten
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to hurlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 496 Seiten
...grief, or gladness !—so it fling Forgetfulness around me.!" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep;—and if I weep, "Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy" &c, Don Juan, Canto... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 Seiten
...or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !'' C/ii/dc Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I may not wee]) ; — and if I weep,. " drive away the memory of it, and make " me forget. • " I will give... | |
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