 | 1900 - 608 lapas
...production, ' Don Juan,' he tells us that his ' sere fancy has fallen ' into the yellow leaf : ' — ' And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.' It was in ' Beppo : a Venetian Story ' that he dropped, for the first time, the weapon of trenchant... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 232 lapas
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy ' ' falls into the yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk II. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 lapas
...present pleasure by the fear of future punishment, let the following humiliating confession declare. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may...our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy." [Ib. Canto IV. Stanza IV.] Such is not the experience of the Christian, who, weeping with those that... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 lapas
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow " Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring Ere what we least wish to behold will... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 372 lapas
...grief, or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I...our nature cannot always bring " Itself to apathy" &c. " the habit of sending Hobhouse, to whom I wrote on my " first wedding-day, and continue to write... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 lapas
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy " falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to hurlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 496 lapas
...grief, or gladness !—so it fling Forgetfulness around me.!" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep;—and if I weep, "Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy" &c, Don Juan, Canto... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 lapas
...or gladness ! — so it fling " Forgetfulness around me !'' C/ii/dc Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, " 'Tis that I may not wee]) ; — and if I weep,. " drive away the memory of it, and make " me forget. • " I will give... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 lapas
...mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion: Now my sere fancy « falls into the yellow Leaf,» and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth...burlesque. IV. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep; and if I weep, ' T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy,... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 lapas
...grief, or gladness ! — so it fling Forgetfulness around me !" Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 4. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy" &c. Dim Juan, Canto IV. Stanza 4. ' This day of ours has surely done Its worst for me and you ! 'Tis... | |
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep... 
