 They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 2101812Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...of that most charming passage, so pure and yet so human-hearted, beginning, " They sin who tell us love can die : With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity," &c. Again, he says, "What theologians call the spiritual sins are his cardinal virtues... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...revert to youth ; but when Shall by-past times come back again ? LOVE. lt. SOUTHEY. THEY sin who tell us love can die; With life, all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the walls of hell; Earthly these passions,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...unrequited : Mother, oh ! sing mo to rest. LOVE. From SOUTHEY'S Curae of Kehama. THEY sin who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1850 - 656 pages
...through a wide range of man's diversified experience. Southey's lines are eminently beautiful : — 1 They sin who tell ns love can die : With life all other passions fly, All others are but faulty,' все. But they are not more beautiful than those from the Canticles : — * As a seal,... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...seen thy look in death. No more may fear to"die. HEMANS. THE IMMORTALITY OF LOVE. They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity: In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell; Earthly these passions... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 794 pages
....others given, This moment hath to him restor'd The early-lost, the long deplored. They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other passions fly — All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly, these )•:•... | |
 | 1850 - 890 pages
...others given, This moment hath to him rcstor'd The early-lost, the long deplored. They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other passions fly — All others are b'lt vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly, these passions... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 340 pages
...majestic, serene — On this turf let me worship ! — the GODHEAD I feel. LOVE. THEY sin who tell us Love can die : With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...must be fresh in the memory of very many present, I cannot resist quoting : — " They sin who tell us love can die : With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of hell : Earthly these passions... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 140 pages
...whole with that ridicule which it deserves— deserves, but not from him. 81 LOVE. THEY sin who tell us love can die ! With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions... | |
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