 Tis left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah! Where shall either victim rest? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower?  The Quarterly Review - Page 3361813Full view - About this book
 | Henry Newland - 1854 - 478 pages
...Is this the way your sailors help one another in distress V " I am afraid so," said the Captain. " Gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die ; And English tars have pity shown For every failure but their own." " You do not mean to say that they will... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...to have lost her garland. Bessy's want of charity recalls the well-known lines in The Giaour: — " No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame."... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...alarm for a moment the peaee that is there, Or banish the dove from so hallow'da nest. Moore. Shall beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No : gayer inseets fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing on those that die, And lovelier things have merey shown... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 pages
...rest ? C?n this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or beauty, blighted in an hou», Find joy within her broken bower { No: gayer insects...o'er those that die. And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing, but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...fondling o'er their Child, Then paints the ruin'd Maid, and their distraction wild ? .— Byron. QHALL Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken...: gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing on those that die, And lovelier things have Mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...to have lost her garland. Bessy's want"of charity recalls the well-known lines in The Giaour: — " No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own ; And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame."... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...wounded wing or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1859 - 396 pages
...of charity finds an apt illustration in the following beautiful lines from Byron's " The Giaour." ' No : gayer insects fluttering by ' Ne'er droop the...those that die .' ' And lovelier things have mercy shown ' To every failing but their own, ' And every woe a tear can claim, 'Except an erring sister's... | |
 | 1859 - 424 pages
...for every action that would admit of one, and pity or silence when aught else was impracticable. " Gayer insects fluttering by! Ne'er droop the wing...o'er those that die ; And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own ; And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring Bister's shame.'... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower? No : gayer inseets fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die. And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can elaim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
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