 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.  Lectures on the English Comic Writers - Page 193by William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! A finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — y. The Flmrm of the Forest. [By Mrs Cockbum.] I've...I've felt all its favours, and found its decay: Sweet \outh is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...constrained. But he was too much hurt to examine how far he was himself to blame ; for, as Coleridge says : " To be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ;" so he dashed on, regardless of every thing but his own bitter thoughts. Had he been less engrossed,... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...stndies it will, we believe, hold the clue to a large part of the problem of the poet's life : — Alas, they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constaney dwells in realms above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 512 pages
...friendship, and adapted to promote each other's happiness, of whom it may be said with melancholy truth, " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth." What then is the part which friendship ought to act in a case where rumor is strong against a friend... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...is scarcely possible to help feeling some anger at the author of the humiliation — and ' to Ъс wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.' It is thus that we often find our greatest vexations arise from what appear our greatest blessings,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 492 pages
...adapted to promote each other's happiness, of whom it ¡nay be said with melancholy truth, " Alae ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth." What then is the part which friendship ought to act in a case where rumor is strong against a friend... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...could point out to any one as giving an adequate idea of his great natural powers. It is high Gerinan, however, and in it he seems to " conceive of poetry...love, Doth work like madness in the brain: And thus it chanc'il as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And insult to his... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...startled Scotland loud should ring, ' Revenge for blood and treachery !' " SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to meet... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...Genevieve, My bright and beauteous bride ! BROKEN FRIENDSHIP. [FROM THE UNFINISHED POEM OF CHRISTABEL.] 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 his... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...name. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine f nd t And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I... | |
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