 Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme, who would strike steel on steel If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming thread, As children, cowslips: — the more pains they take,...  No Hero: An Autobiography : [a Novel] - Sida 327efter Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 355 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1873 - 428 sidor
...dare not : 'tis too easy to go mad And ape a Bourbon in a crown of straws ; The thing 's too common. Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme, who would strike steel on steel If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1874 - 459 sidor
...sand ? We all write verses at some moment or other in our lives, even the most prosaic amongst us — some because they are happy ; some because they are...let the work be what it may. " Many fervent souls, Was this case mine? Was I fancying myself a poet, only because I was an idle man, and had lost the... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 sidor
...you far better in the words of a very earnest and real poetess of our own day than in my own: — " Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme who would strike steel on steel If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 sidor
...you far better in the words of a very earnest and real poetess of our own day than in my own : — " Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme who would strike steel on steel If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1883 - 366 sidor
...dare not ; 'tis too easy to go mad And ape a Bourbon in a crown of straws ; The thing's too common. Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme, who would strike steel on steel, If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 sidor
...you far better in the words of a very earnest and real poetess of our own day than in my own : — " Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme who would strike steel on steel If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 sidor
...— "... 'T is too easy to go mad And ape a Bourbon in a crown of straws : The thing 's too common. Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme, who would strike steel on steel, If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls Ilave strung their losses on a rhyming... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1898 - 408 sidor
...dare not : 't is too easy to go mad And ape a Bourbon in a crown of straws ; The thing 's too common. Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme, who would strike steel on steel If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming... | |
 | Karl Pearson - 1914 - 468 sidor
...cit. p. 214. * The prize was won by Galton's friend, W. Johnson of King's. As Mrs Browning puts it: Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme, who would strike steel on steel If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Aurora Leigh, 22nd ed. p. 34. career. He had not yet... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1974 - 356 sidor
...passage, he wrote to his sister Mary, 'rather winded me, yea wounded me', and he transcribed it for her: Many fervent souls Strike rhyme on rhyme, who would strike steel on steel If steel had offered, in a restless heat Of doing something. Many tender souls* Have strung their losses on a rhyming... | |
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