 Tis pity though, in this sublime world, that Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure ; Few mortals know what end they would be at, But whether glory, power, or love, or treasure, The path is through perplexing ways, and when The goal is gain'd,...  Don Juan - Sida 69efter George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 227 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1861 - 364 sidor
...PATTISON. Vain human kind ! fantastic race Thy various follies who can trace ? — SWIFT. 'Tis pity tho', in this sublime world, that Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.— BYRON. >Y " Women of New )York," we mean females in general who inhabit the metropolis. If the men... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sidor
...Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. Byron, DJ r. \7. Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, And wonderful beyond all wondrous measure ; 'Tis pity tho', in this sublime world, that Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. Ib. I. 133. Man's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 sidor
...Waterloo. CXXXIII. Man 'sa phenomenon, one knows not what, And wonderful beyond all wondrous measure; 'T is t 8 & sin su pleasure; Few mortals know what end they would beat, But whether glory, power, or love, or treasure.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 sidor
...the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true. Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo. CXXX II T. 1 when mingling souls forget to blend, Death hath...bending o'er the vessel's laving side, To gaze o , v. hen The goal is gain'd, we die. you know — ami U:en CXXX IV. What then!— I do not know, no more... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 sidor
...BARLOW. Smile on, nor venture to unmask Man's heart, and view the hell that 's there. BYRON. Man 'sa phenomenon, one knows not what, And wonderful beyond all wondrous measure ; "Tis pity tho', in this sublime world, that Pleasure 'sa sin, and sometimes sin 'sa pleasure. BYRON'S Don Juan.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 sidor
...voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo. ar Which hail'd her master in the mutineer — A seaman,...sympathy ; Held the moist shaddock to his parched The goal is gaiu'd, we die, you know — and then cxxxiv. What then ? — I do not know, no more do... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 404 sidor
...voyages to the Poles, 7° Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo. Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, And wonderful...world, that Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure;'7 Few mortals know what end they would be at, But whether glory, power, or love, or treasure,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1874 - 150 sidor
...Had he been good, he should have tried to stop her, But, then, it is so nice to be improper. LXII. " Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, • And wonderful...Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure." Which lines are Byron's. You will find them pat, If you look up Don yuan when you've leisure. If sin's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 sidor
...voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo. Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, And wonderful...pleasure ; Few mortals know what end they would be at, liut whether glory, power, or love, or treasure, The path is through perplexing ways, and when The... | |
 | George Bruce - 1876 - 642 sidor
...no one virtue yet, except starvation, Conld stop that worst of vices — propagation." — Ibid. " Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, And wonderful...Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure." — Ibid. xxxvi. Go, make conventions take the place of deeds ; With despots tamper,1 till the wrong... | |
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