 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste...by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously." Had they looked more frequently into their own natures, and made enquiry into the welfare and solvency... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they seem overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to...by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. A pastoral life is not necessarily barbarous, it presupposes in fact a certain amount of civilization... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, ctive force, Or chase with nimble feet its rapid course....way, Where Brent's cool waves in limpid currents XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ;... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1841 - 410 pages
...crowned head — But soft! Look, underneath yon jutting crag Are hunters and a slaughter'd stag. 1 [" He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest...surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earih and ocean spread,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...lower." » MS.—" Ponr'd like a torrent dread." 3 MS. — " J*c;ip from the mountain's head." * " Ho b4h o o k k k 6 hate of those below. Though high above the aim of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, l. tmnhlmg and tuiplcioiu tyranny. Such were his iperchn to public assemblies a* well as individuals ;... | |
 | Mrs. Anne HOPE - 1842 - 382 pages
...often tottered into with the same steps that lead them to the grave. " He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds...surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread... | |
 | 1835 - 638 pages
...agreeable one, to all, of the whole number that have been wasted. He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds...surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate ofthoic below. A MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A MADHOUSE. 1 SRETCH. I AH the eldest son of a numerous family,... | |
 | Charles William Day - 1844 - 200 pages
...following passage ! — . "He who ascends to mountain tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapped in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below." CHILDE HAROLD, canto iii. How many have felt this before Byron breathed their... | |
 | 1844 - 888 pages
...the happiness of life ! " He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapped in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow. And far beneath the earth and ocean spread,... | |
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He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean... 
