 | Maria Welch Harris, H. D. Rumsey - 1876 - 284 sidor
...he wore down the earth, we plainly heard him say: " My hair is gray but not with years, Nor grew it white in a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears ; My limbi are bowed though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they haVe been a dungeon's... | |
 | Jane W. Bruner - 1877 - 266 sidor
...passed over his face, and he said, politely : " ' My hair is gray, but not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown, from sudden fears; My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
 | 1899 - 814 sidor
...in the " Prisoner of Chillon," when he wrote — " My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears." He distinguished the gradual greyish from slow and protracted nervous exhaustion, or excitement which... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 422 sidor
...when Chillon fell into the hands of his countrymen.] My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears ; My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose ; For they have been a dungeon's... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 sidor
...IV. LORD BYKON, 1788-1824. THE PRISONER OF CHILL ON. MY hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, 5 But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
 | Charles Henri Leonard - 1879 - 324 sidor
...his " Prisoner of Chillon," whom he makes to say: " My hair is gray, but not with years; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears." Shakspeare, in Henry IV., has also made note of the sudden blanching of the hair. Thus, he has one... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 sidor
...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it men false. OtHtU?, Act \. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESP : My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
 | John H. Soulé - 1880 - 42 sidor
...of laws beginning with the fourteenth century. 8. Which of the two is the eldest. 9. " Nor grew it white in a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears." 10. The number of accounts in the two quarters were very large. 2. What is the interest of $26.25 fo... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 sidor
...look, by death revealed. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white in a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears ; My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
 | George Black (M.D.) - 1881 - 870 sidor
...authority in the ' Prisoner of Chillon ' :— ' My hair is grey, though not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.' " Sir Thomas More, we are told, became grey during the night preceding his execution. According to... | |
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MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate... 
