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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. "
British melodies, extracts from the modern poets [signed J.H.R.]. - Page 240
by British melodies - 1820
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The Canadian Girl; Or, The Pirate of the Lakes: A Story of the Affections

1838 - 746 pages
...with a dash of careless and melancholy humour, " O, Deborah, I see now how it is with you— . • To be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.' You cannot mean all this bitterness against me! Do you forget telling me all about O'Reilly and Ireland...
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The jewel, sacred, domestic, narrative and lyrical poems selected from ...

Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...And Bess has stolen away to talk With Roger in the holly-walk. Kllilvi: WHITE. FRIENDSHIP DESTROYED. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...And life is thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wrath with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With...
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Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talk

Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 pages
...along the wave, As dives a hero headlong to his grave." BYRON — The Island, c. ii. st. xvi. II. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline, Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to...
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Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talk

Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 pages
...down along the wave, As dives a hero headlong to his grave." BYRON—The Island, c. ii. st. xvi. 11. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline, Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...name, Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again. Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryennainc ? beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which niadiiesn in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Kolnnd nnd Sir Leoline. Each spake words...
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Tales of the village, Volume 1

Francis Edward Paget - 1841 - 276 pages
...he grew angry, and called her firmness obstinacy, and her calmness want of feeling. And then (for " To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain,") he left her with words of unkindness and reproaches, which, unjust as they were, were nevertheless...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 456 pages
...beauty of the " lady of a far countrie," when we read these among other musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 pages
...beauty of the " lady of a far countrie," when we read these among other musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as...
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Home sketches and foreign recollections, Volume 3

lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 438 pages
...Foscari, the signora's cavaliere, and signor Allegri, and signor Rodrigo Manfredi." CHAPTER III. " And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." COLERIDGE. WEEKS, months passed away, and the day was fixed for Theresa's marriage with Prince Carlo...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 7

1841 - 908 pages
...beauty of the " lady of a far countrie," when we read these among other musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms alrave ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to he wroth with one we love, Doth work like...
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