 | 1882 - 1434 sidor
...Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. j. BOVEE— Summaries of Thought. Cheerfulneas. eeler Hoyt k. BVBON— Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 4. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose. Breathes the keen... | |
 | Autumn leaves - 1882 - 210 sidor
...did perfume the air, Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.' 2. ' A turn for punning, call it .' 3. ' And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once .' 4. ' Let me play the fool, With age and wrinkles let sage counsels come.' 5. ' Fare thee well, and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 sidor
...opinion : They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow Leaf,' and...mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 sidor
...opinion : They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow Leaf,' and...mortal thing, :Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the... | |
 | Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 sidor
...foundation of all religion. (2)"Now, my sere fancy falls into the yellow leaf, And imagination droops his pinion, And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." Don Juan, Canto 4. Only 50 copies of this poem were first intended to be printed for private circulation.... | |
 | 1883 - 778 sidor
...recollection of his frequent exhibitions of unaffected hysteria, we accept his own confession — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep " — as a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects the most effective,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 sidor
...opinion : They took it up when my days grew more mellow, And other minds acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and...And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may rfbt weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 sidor
...Can make the fool of, that they made before; In fact I must not lead the life I do." And again: — " Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and...desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." THE WORN-OUT STEED. Re wise and release from the chariot in time thy aged steed, lest he become the... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 sidor
...Can make the fool of, that they made before; In fact I must not lead the life I do." And again: — " Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and...desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." THE WORN-OUT STEED. Re wise and release from the chariot in time thy aged steed, lest he become the... | |
 | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 1884 - 194 sidor
...although it is added here from the later ones. 1. 32. Cf. Byron's Don Juan, Canto iv, stanza iv: — ' And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep,' etc. P. 85, 1. 8. M. Vitu finds here another resemblance to Regnard's Folies Amoureuses : — ' Lisette... | |
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Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep... 
