 Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?...  The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce - Page 164by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 2010 - 634 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1899 - 998 pages
...ire unmerited ; Half-eased, too, that a Powerfuler than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why...and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. This note Mr. Hardy... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - English poetry - 1898 - 236 pages
...unmerited ; Half-eased, too, that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. HAP But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain. And why...and rain. And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . . These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. 1866. I "IN... | |
 | United States - 1899 - 1004 pages
...ire unmerited ; Half-eased, too, that a Powerfuler than I Had willed and meted me the tears 1 shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why...and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. This note Mr. Hardy... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1899 - 960 pages
...ago he could pen euch verses as these : " How arrives it joy lies slain. And why nnbloomg the beet hope ever sown ? Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, And dicing Time for gladness oasts a moan . . . These purblind doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about ray pilgrimage as pain."... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 328 pages
...of ire unmerited ; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why...and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . . These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. ' I "HE monotony... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1908 - 518 pages
...sense of ire unmerited ; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the teau shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why...and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . . These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. 1866. \ "IN... | |
 | Lionel Johnson - English literature - 1911 - 364 pages
...ire unmerited ; Half-eased, too, that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why...and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . . These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. The spirit... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - English literature - 1919 - 332 pages
...more at ease if he could find an explanation in the hatred of some malignant Power, but not so — |* Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, ' And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan." Nature, instead of giving any answer, seems to him to have her own fruitless questioning — "Has some... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - English literature - 1920 - 366 pages
...his constitutional pessimism as early as 1866 in a short lyric significantly named 'Hap.' He asks: " How arrives it joy lies slain And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?" His mind would be more at ease if he could find an explanation in the hatred of some malignant Power,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1920 - 578 pages
...of ire unmerited ; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why...and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . . These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. 1866. "IN... | |
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