 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
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...here, and growing still ; So grows ours evermore, both theirs and mine. THE DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. 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... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...she really the daughter of Roland de Vaux, and would the friends have met again and embraced ? — ' 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... | |
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 396 pages
...— Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryennaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth \vork like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each... | |
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 398 pages
...— Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we lore, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline.... | |
 | Camden Elizabeth Lambert - 1838 - 1014 pages
...shedding beauty and sweetness where all beside seems but a dreary waste. CHAPTER XIII. Al.is ! they bad been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we lore, Doth work like madness in the brain. Coltriilgt. Mais toi, console-moi — viens — conscns... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1838 - 1048 pages
...manycoloured ribbons of the Sullivans, she left the region of the past. D2 FITZHERBERT. CHAPTER III. " And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain." COLERIDGE. HENRY Fitzherbert was for the first time in his life really and passionately in love; and... | |
 | Canadian poetry - 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... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy dwell* in realms above, And life is thorny. Youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madrrass on the brain. So chanc'd it once as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline — They parted,... | |
 | 1839 - 296 pages
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 | 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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