I laughed, and danced, and talked, and sung : And, proud of health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. But when the hour of trial came, When sickness shook this... The Literary panorama - Page 5931818Full view - About this book
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. " But when the hour...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more, It then occurred, how sad 'twould be, Were this world only made for... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. " But when the hour...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more,— It then occurred how sad 'twould be Were this world only made for... | |
| Religious poetry - 1886 - 406 pages
...health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. But when the hour of...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more, It then occurred, how sad 't would be Were this world only made for... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. " l?ut when the hour of trial came, When sickness shook this...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more, It then occurred, how sad 'twould be, Were this, world only made for... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. " But when the hour...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more, It then occurred, how sad 'twould be, Were this world only made for... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - Christian life - 1887 - 320 pages
...freedom vain, Dreamt not of sorrow, care, or pain. Oh ! then, in those bright hours of glee, I thought the world was made for me. But when the hour of trial came, And sickness shook my feeble frame, And folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. " But when the hour...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more, It then occurred, how sad 'twould be, Were this world only made for... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 400 pages
...health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. " But when the hour...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more, It then occurred, how sad 't would be, Were this world only made for... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1893 - 376 pages
...health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding in these hours of glee, That all the world was made for me ; But when the hour...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance and sing no more, It then occurred how sad 'twould be, Were this world only made for... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. But when the days of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance and sing no more, It then occurred how gad 'twould be, Wen this world only made for me.... | |
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