Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent... Lectures on the English Poets - Page 328by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1799 - 224 pages
...expected, therefore, this transaction widened this breach in their brotherly affection still more. They stood aloof; the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder. Esau, indeed, harboured revenge in his breast, and determined, when his father was dead, to put Jacob... | |
| 1845 - 752 pages
...linger a gleam of its former loveliness, as if all that had befallen it had been unable — "Wholly to do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." These, however, are the exception. Silence, sadness, sterility and desolateness are the rule. " As... | |
| John Bickerton - 1816 - 70 pages
...disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." The Baron determines to send Geraldine back to the mansion of her father, and salutes her with a warn... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...may recollect, is as follows : — " They stood aloof, the scars remaining Like cliffs which had beeu rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." Christabel, Part II. A coincidence worthy of remark is contained in the second ctanza of this canto,... | |
| 1816 - 676 pages
...disdain, And insult to his heart's best brother i They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining—...been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, 'Gut neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once... | |
| 1816 - 592 pages
...paining— They stood nloof, the ecars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A drrary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost,...away I ween The marks of that which once hath been. It would be injustice to the author to break the powerful spell in which he holds his readers, by any... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 82 pages
...insult to his heart's best brother: They parted—ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another A To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had,been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall... | |
| 1816 - 692 pages
...expired, but leaving them an age •« , The original, our readers may recollect, is as follows:— " They stood aloof, the scars remaining Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, > Shall wholly do away, I ween, ••» C A dreary sea now... | |
| 1816 - 612 pages
...di-dnin And insult to his heart's best brother; They purled — ni-'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining—- They stood aloof, Ihesrni-f remaining,' //lite cl(tr* which find Item rent itiunicrf jl tfi-rni if sea nnirjtftui tetttttn... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 212 pages
...vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : ***** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining—...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been. Coleridge's Chriitabel. FARE THEE WELL ! FARE thee well ! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee... | |
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