 | Willard Phillips - 1826 - 194 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school, Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule ; ' i :. ! '. .1 .. . ,/ . Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unleach mankind the lust to shine or rule. XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A .storm...strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Hell to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow aud supineuess, and so die; Even as a llame unfed,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind...whereon they ride, to sink at last And yet so nursed and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...Envied, yet how unenviable! what stings Arc theirs! One breast laid open were a school Which wonld unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule: Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whercon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That shonld their days,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last; And yet... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last ; And yet... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1832 - 432 pages
...but two talented political writers, a class of men of whom it is well said by the noble bard, — " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm, whereon they ride, so sink at last ; And yet so nursed and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | Provincial Medical and Surgical Association - 1834 - 622 pages
...with prophetic truth, that he was " almost one of those wretched beings whom Lord Byron describes, ' Their breath is agitation, and their life ' A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last.' " He was then harrassed by business of various descriptions, connected with his property ; he was laboriously... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...themselves the fools to those th;>y fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable! what sting* Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule 1 '• Their breath is agitation, and their life Л atorm whereon they ride, to sink at last ; And... | |
 | lady Charlotte Susan M. Bury - 1836 - 1000 pages
...themselves the fools, to those they fool— Envied, yet how unenviable—what stings, Are theirs! one breast laid open were a school, Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. BYRON. MR. DELAMERE had entered into public life with the determination to become great,—how far... | |
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Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, And are themselves the fools to those they fool... 
