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" Why did she love him? Curious fool! — be still — Is human love the growth of human will? "
Dick Turpin - Page 1
by Henry Downes Miles - 1840 - 323 pages
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Mary Seaham. A Novel

Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1884 - 466 pages
...purity and goodness, such as was enshrined in Mary's breast, and she — " Why did she love him?— Curious fool be still — Is human love the growth of human will? " Absorbed in her happy dreams, Mary drove home that evening with her cousins, too happy even to be...
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Truths illustrated by great authors [ed. by W. White].

Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...nor whence nor why she left behind Her all for one who seem'd but little kind. Why did she love him ? Curious fool ! — be still — Is human Love the growth of human will ? To her he might be Gentleness ; the stern Have deeper thoughts than your dull eyes discern, And when...
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Through Romany Songland

Laura Alexandrine Smith - Ballads, Romani - 1889 - 256 pages
...which could have led to its origin ; but then we may question with Byron— " Why did she love him ? curious fool ! be still. Is human love the growth of human will ? " The following is a tinkler's song, sometimes attributed to Yetholm : — TINKLER'S SONG. I am a...
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The Onondagan, Volume 1892

Student publications - 1891 - 406 pages
...that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is the scornful jest." -' ' Why did she love him ? Curious fool be still, Is human love the growth of human will?" -"Ripe in wisdom was he but patient, and simple, and childlike." -" O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love...
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The Awakening of Mary Fenwick, a Novel

Beatrice Whitby - 1892 - 370 pages
...Ogilvie, between his teeth. 4 Such a love would be worth nothing.' 4 Remember, " Why did she lore him ? Curious fool, be still, Is human love the growth of human will." ' 'Mary, in a back-handed way, he has called you a fool,' said the invalid from her sofa. 'This comes...
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Poems of Love from the Best Authors

English poetry - 1893 - 260 pages
...pursue, And shield thee, and save thee, — or perish there too ! THOMAS MOORE. Why did she love him? Curious fool, be still ! Is human love the growth of human will ? LORD BYRON. IF YOU BE A NUN. If you be a Nun, Dear, A Friar I will be : In any cell you run, Dear,...
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A Fight with Fate, Volume 1

Mrs. Alexander - English fiction - 1896 - 310 pages
...himself love her?" Lord Lynford laughed. "Excuse the incivility of my quotation if I say, with Byron, 'Curious fool, be still ! Is human love the growth of human will ?' " " But it is rather terrible to think that one can be made wretched and wicked, too, against your...
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St. Elmo: A Novel, Volume 1

Augusta Jane Evans - Alabama - 1896 - 588 pages
...voiceless anguish at the thought of his giving his sinful bitter heart to any woman. Why did she love him ? Curious fool, be still ! Is human love the growth of human will ?" Pressing her hand to her eyes she murmured „" Gertrude is right ; he is fascinating, but it is...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious ..., Volume 1873

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...despise : Disguise even tenderness, if thou art wise. BYRON : Childe Harold. Why did she love him? Curious fool, be still : Is human love the growth of human will? BYRON: Lara. —Then crown my joys, or cure my pain; Give me more love, or more disdain ; The torrid...
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Love in Epigram: Sapient Guesses and Foolish Conceits about the Tender Passion

Love - 1898 - 264 pages
...perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. FRANCIS BACON. IX. WHY did she love him? Curious fool, be still; Is human love the growth of human will ? LORD BYRON. WE paint love as a child, when he should sit a giant on his clouds, the great disturbing...
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