 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pages
...unteach mankind the lust to rule,' he describes their nature and their fate in these fine stanzas : ' Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...ideality undermines the heart and obliterates the feelings, absorbs the mind in selfish speculation and isolates it in itself. Amusement becomes business,...all to prove that gray hairs are as dignified over Ariosto or the Thousand and One Nights, as they are over Locke or Adam Smith. 'Tis a selfish warmth,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...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 so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...! 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 so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pages
...ideality undermines the heart and obliterates the feelings, absorbs the mind in selfish speculation and isolates it in itself. Amusement becomes business,...gorgeous promises of youth. But we grow marvellously heroic—quite Zimmermannish, and why ? all to prove that gray hairs are as dignified over Ariosto... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule: Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...theirs ! One Bteast laid open were a school /Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule : " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last ; And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...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 so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 504 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school, Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule ; Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past,... | |
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Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die;... 
