 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pagine
...opinion : They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow Leaf,' and...mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 pagine
...opinion : They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow Leaf,' and...mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pagine
...same opinion : They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other mmds acknowledged my dominion. Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and...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... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pagine
...recollection of his frequent exhibitions of unaffected hysteria, we accept his own confession — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep " — as a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects the most effective,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pagine
...opinion ; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and...mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pagine
...opinion ; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and...mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pagine
...opinion : They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow Leaf,' and...mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, fof we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 326 pagine
...opinion ; They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and...mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pagine
...mellow. And other minds acknowledged my dominion. Now my sere fancjr " falls into the yellow I.eaf, ' 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... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pagine
...world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." BVRON: Don Juan, IV. 4. Walpole also wrote, "In my youth, I thought of writing a satire upon mankind;... | |
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Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep... 
