 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...she — Beautiful exceedingly ! Л finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — Alas ! ordered, through her currents dash, To gain the Scottish...shivered was fair Scotland's spear, And broken wa diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...My bright and beauteous bride ! BROKEN FRIENDSHIP. [FROM THE UNFINISHED POEM OF CHRISTABEL.] ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother ; They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...quarrel between Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues...Doth work like madness in the brain ; And thus it chanc'd as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...Scotland loud should ring, ' Revenge for blood and treachery !' " SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...tongues can poison truth . And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny ; and youth is vain t And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness...Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his hearts best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues ean poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow... | |
 | Gift - 1846 - 268 pages
...with mercy, O ! how sweet Will eternal friendship be ! CW THOMPSON. THE QUARREL OP FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering tongues...chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline I , Each spoke words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother ; They parted — ne'er... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Uoluiul and Sir Leoliiie. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother :... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...cried. " Emily ! Emily I" exclaimed Alick, but he stood in the drawing-room alone. CHAPTER III. Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. COLRRIDGE CHRISTABEL. "WHERE'S Emily, I wonder?" said the soft languid voice of Lady King, (she always... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 484 pages
...its proximity to the Cadr, of those beautiful lines from the " Christabel" of Coleridge:— " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. • » * • * * • * But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They... | |
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Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder;... 
