 While maidens laugh'd and minstrels sang, Still closer to her ear — But why pursue the common tale? Or wherefore show how knights prevail When ladies dare to hear ? Or wherefore trace from what slight cause Its source one tyrant passion draws, Till,...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 244publié par - 1814Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 pages
...wishes, wishes words, and words a letter." BYRON. " Do not make me kiss, and you will not make me sin." " Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause Its source...tyrant passion draws, Till mastering all within." SCOTT. Nugis adder e pondus. HOR. — To give importance to trifling matters. Nulla atas ad perdiscendam... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 534 pages
...delights of her society, — and many and exquisite these were. But of the sequel, as the poem says, why " trace from what slight cause Its source one tyrant...How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin I "Another day, another day, And yet another glides away I The Saxon stern, the pagan Dane, Maraud... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...trace from what slight cause Its source one tyrant passion draws, Till, mastering all within, Whore lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, CAUTO SECOND. continuel). " ANOTHER day, another day, And yet another, glides away I The Saxon stern,... | |
 | Edward Law Hussey - 1873 - 172 pages
...planted in the human breast, but to direct them to their proper ends. — ZIMMERMANN, On Solitude. Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause its source...how mirth can into folly glide, and folly into sin? — SIR W. SCOTT, Bridal of Triermain. All that gives gloss to sin, all gay light folly, pass'd with... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 pages
...ducent — Where lives the man who hath not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin ? Or wherefore trace from what slight cause Its source...one tyrant passion draws, Till mastering all within ? Nulla est sincera voluptas — But ask not thou if happiness be there, If the loud laugh disguise... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken ! Canto v. St. 18. Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin ! The Bridal of Triermain. Canto \. St. 21. When Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart. Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin ? SIR W. SCOTT : Bridal of Triermai*. Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken ! Canto v. St. 1 8. Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin ! The Bridal of Triermain. Canto \. St. 21. When Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...FRAME your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life ! Shakespeare. a a ? — Scott. 2488. MISANTHROPY : its sadness. MOST painful moods are those in which we think The world... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 742 pages
...trace, from what slight cause Its source one tyrant passion draws, Till, mastering all within, TVnere lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!'* CANTO SECOND. £ 2strfn}j'£ flTaite tmitinuefr. " ANOTHER day, another day, And yet another, glides... | |
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