 | Fashion - 1867 - 740 pages
...apply to the pleasant memories I should be sorry to have vanished altogether from my remembrance : ' I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most : Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.' " One first and last peep at Mr. John Moncton, the hero par excellence,... | |
 | 1872 - 516 pages
...memory, so all unutterably dear to her : by these, without any words, she often seemed to say — • " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." You heard it when she sang, still not those words. She had a pleasant... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...breathes such sweetness and sacredness. The key-note of the whole is struck at the beginning : — " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; "fis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."* And the same sentiment seeks... | |
 | Beulah Kezia Hanson - 1845 - 410 pages
...-wear on, I hunger more To see your face again before I die. ALEXANDEB SMITH. ~i hold it true, whatc'cr befall, I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better...and lost, Than never to have loved at all. TENNYSON. GAINIpassoveranintervaloffouryears. During this period no great change had occurred in our circle.... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...The heart that never plighted troth. But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow rao«t; 'Tis bfttfr to hin-f, brred and /ojl, Than never to hare tared at all. JOSEPH AND nis BRKTHIU.N.—... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 602 pages
...breathes such sweetness and sacredness. The key-note of the whole is struck at the beginning : — " I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."* And the same sentiment seeks strength to sustain and justify itself... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth, Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVIII. THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth ; Nor any want begotten rest. " I hold it true whate'er befall — I feel it when I sorrow most : Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all." The reader must already have discovered that this poem is characterized... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...breathes such sweetness and sacredness. The key-note of the whole is struck at the beginning :— " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."* And the same sentiment seeks strength to sustain and justify itself... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth, Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. 44 XXVIII. THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid... | |
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I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. 
