 | 1816 - 572 pages
...of happiness, " "Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess : The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd >aiP shall never .stretch again. ' Then * Besides all this objectionable alliteration, the shivered... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 212 pages
...wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess : The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again. 3. Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down ; It cannot feel for others' woes,... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess : The magnet of their course is .tone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down; It cannot i'e.el for others' woes,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess : The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again. 3. Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down ; It cannot feel for other's woes,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 614 pages
...wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess : The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again. 3. Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down ; ; • . It cannot feel for others'... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 332 pages
...ahove the wreck of Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess: The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again. 3. Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itse comes down; It cannot feel for others' woes,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...wreck of happiness Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess : The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver' d sail shall never stretch again. Then themortal coldness of the soul like death itselfcomes... | |
 | 1825 - 500 pages
...wreck of happinessi Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt, or ocean of excess; The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shivered sail shall never stretch again. Thus the highest conceptions of abstract virtue may only lead... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess : The magnet of their course soul like death itself comes down ; It cannot feel for others' woes, it dare not dream its own; That... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1826 - 202 pages
...aail shall nerer stretch again. Then the mortal coldness of the soul, like death itself comes downi It cannot feel for others' woes, it dare not dream its own i [tears, That heary chill has froren o'er the fountain of our And, though the eye may sparkle Still,... | |
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Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess: The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again Then the... 
