 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...name. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale. Murmuring o'er the name again. Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine t Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we lore. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline.... | |
 | Alfred Jackson, Effingham Wilson - 1849 - 222 pages
...harder to be won than a strong city" ; what fire can rage so fiercely as love turned to anger? for — " to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain." Nothing but a thorough and decisive disunion, we conceive, can be the result of such a state of feeling... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...can poison truth ; And constancy Uve» In realm« above ; And life is thorny ; Mid youth Is Tain ; ame and sorrow deep in my heart's core: These I could bear, but canno ; 1816.] [1816. But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— The; stood... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...forthwith] forwith T6 394 into] within T3 Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; 410 And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with... | |
 | Sui Sin Far - 1995 - 320 pages
...It was a beautiful friendship, and even now, in their anger, I know they are loving one another." " 'And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain!' " quoted the professor. "Oh, Kate, my bonny, bonny Kate, cease talking and thinking about other people... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...should meet thee 30 After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears. Fare thee well! 'Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain; But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining,... | |
 | Cynthia Ozick - 1996 - 358 pages
...false to any man. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! Thine this universal frame. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness on the brain. So much for Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton, and Coleridge. But also Addison, Cowper,... | |
 | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton - 1996 - 336 pages
...false to any man. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! Thine this universal frame. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be worth with one we love Doth work like madness on the brain. So much for Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton,... | |
 | Abby A. Judson - 1996 - 232 pages
...contention. And the result i»t Often worse when we contend with one we love, for as Coleridge says : . ' ' " To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness In th« brain." It is very difficult to lay down exact laws for the government of the physical body. Different... | |
 | Thomas E. Jenkins - 1997 - 283 pages
...hating the beloved, the character moves from a longing love to paralysis and sometimes derangement. "To be wroth with one we love / Doth work like madness in the brain," wrote Coleridge. Yet in romanticism ambivalence need not be a disaster. It can be the threshold leading... | |
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Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. 
