 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...puzzle of the soul, and the dazzle of the mind's dim eyes. FELTHAM. QUIET to quick town* is a hell: . there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In it* own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - Mexico - 1841 - 426 pages
...depicted tbe exorbitant restlessness which has marked his career for the last twelve years, thus . " Quitt to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy...there is a fire And motion of the soul, which will act dwell ID its OWD Dttrow being, but aspire Beyond the Siting medium of desire; And bat oace kindled,... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - Mexico - 1841 - 416 pages
...which has marked bis career for the last twelve years, thus : " (/MI; to quick bosoms is a hell, Ami there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul, which will not dwell In i(s own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; .And but once kindled, quenchless... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den.(l) XLII. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, Aad t lu its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...were turn'd unto thine overthrow : 'Tis but a worthless world to win or lose ! — So hath it prov'd to thee, and all such lot who choose. But quiet to...aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, hut once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure ; nor can tire Of aught but rest ;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...Like stern Diogenes to mock at men ; [den. (I) For sceptred cynics earth were far loo wide a XLII. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath...And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys нроп high adventure, nor can tire Of aught bttt rest; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears,... | |
 | Emma Robinson - 1846 - 1102 pages
...caused by two men who had drawn daggers on some slight quarrel, and slunk out of sight. CHAPTER II. " But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane . . . And who can view the ripened rose, nor seek To wear it ? who can curiously behold The smoothness... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...wide a den. * XLH. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And then hath been thy bane ; there is a flre (H $ 0> , Ore Of aught but rest ; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. XLHL This... | |
 | Great Britain - 1855 - 494 pages
...stranger to all soul-quietude ; and what Harold said of Napoleon, was equally true of Byron: — " But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane." The soul of a Napoleon or Byron, if it fail to find repose on the eternal granite — if it loose its... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 776 pages
...entirely content a silent spectator in the world. Rest to him was in activity, not in freedom from labor. "There is a fire And motion of the soul which will...desire, And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, ***** nor can tire Of aught but rest." It is meet that we should pay tribute to such ability and worth... | |
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire... 
