 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...so, they extorted tie secret ; hence, the origin of the popular story of the Devil and Dr. Faustus. ' Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, Ami yet so nure'd and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...so, they extorted tie secret; hence, the origin of the popular story of the Devil and Dr. Faustas. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, lo sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigoted lo strife, That should Iheir days, surviving peril»... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 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...storm whereon they ride, to sink at last ; And yet so nurs'd and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...119 XL1V. Their breath is agitation, and (heir life A slorm, whereon they ride, to sink al last, Am! yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt lo caira twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; ben as a ñame unfed,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable I what stings Are theirs ! One breast on, we had a narrow escape from a party of M-unotes, concealed in the caverns XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet... | |
 | 1849 - 632 pages
...keep up converse with God. It will be well for him if the poet's words are not verified in him — " Their breath is agitation, and their life, A storm whereon they ride to sink at last." Daniel and Joseph were politicians, so was Wilberforce ; but they were all men of prayer, living near... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast urn to linger as you go, Prom loftier rocks new loveliness survey, And rest yet at our "Lady's house of lo sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...theirs/! One breast bid open were a school Which woulfi^mteach mankind the lost to shine at rule; XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm...so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their duys, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow aud supincncss,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 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: 1 The great error of Napoleon," if we have writ our annals true,'' was a continued obtrusion on mankind... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast A lover of these pageantries. Sieg. No, Ulric • It were not well XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet... | |
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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... 
