 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 632 pages
...life. Slielley tells us of himself, in those beautiful Verses written, in Dejection, near Naples, — ' Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around.' And he indicates in the ' Alastor1 that the utmost he hoped to realize was — ' Not sobs nor groans,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within...surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within...Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I sec whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And \valk'd with inward glory crown'd— \"r fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see...To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even us the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child,... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1847 - 330 pages
...might remark the same of his 'Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples,' where he exclaims, ' Alas 1 I have nor hope nor health. Nor peace within, nor...content surpassing wealth. The sage In meditation found. I could He down like a tired child, And weep away the life and care Which I have borne, and yet must... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...Then I have neither goods nor gold. I think it is Shelley who has a passage resembling this :— " Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that content, exceeding wealth, The sage in contemplation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd ; Nor wealth,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...a tone ! Arises from its measured motion, w sweet ! did any heart now share in rny emotion. Vías ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Vor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, \nd walked with inward glory crowned... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 528 pages
...me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now eliare in my emotion. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within...surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd— Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these... | |
 | 1835 - 606 pages
...to display itself — the first in some stanzas " written near Naples," part of which we quote : — Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that contempt surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found. And walked with inward glory crown 'd —... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1852 - 202 pages
...calm and pleasantness. But it came not ; and I applied earnestly to myself the words of the poet : ' Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within,...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.' " As if to bless me with the last, boon, I saw ascending to the bastion the gentleman whose appearance... | |
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Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. 
