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" Comfort? comfort scorned of devils; this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on... "
Poems - Page 100
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pages
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Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings, Volume 2

Alexander Hay Japp - 1877 - 380 pages
...crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." So that one is tempted to continue the strain — " Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." My heart is full enough to bid him a cordial and grateful farewell — too full to continue a rhapsody...
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Hours with Men and Books

William Mathews - 1877 - 360 pages
...That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things ; " and we would fain say to him : ' ' Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." Here, were it not needless, we might pause to speak of the egregious folly of those persons who fancy...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 pages
...prooC In the dead nnhappy night, when the rain is on the roof. Like a dog, he hnnts in dreams, and thon art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp...the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass hefore thee, pointing to his drnnken sleep, To thy widow'd marriage pillows, to the tears that thon...
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Locksley Hall, and The Talking Oak

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 96 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, 111 the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, III the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou...
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The T. & W. club papers: an illustr. monthly magazine. May-Dec., 1877

T. and W. club papers - 240 pages
...Nepenthe and the waters of the Lethe, wherewith to drug one's memory, lest one muses, and our heart is put to proof in the dead unhappy night, and when the rain beats on the roof, — especially when that rain is not a summer shower, or even a moderate downpour....
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Poems of Imagination and Fancy

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 262 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sing?, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand would pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows, to the tears...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart bo put to proof, In the dead, unhappy night, and when...is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams; and thon art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. LOCKSLEY...
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Thomas de Quincey: his life and writings, with unpublished ..., Volume 2

Alexander Hay Japp - 1879 - 416 pages
...one is tempted to continue the strain— " Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lost thy heart bo put to proof In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." My heart is full enough to bid him a cordial and grateful farewell—too full to continue a rhapsody...
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The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero Arranged According to Its ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1879 - 428 pages
...different purport, in Locksley Hall — Drug thy memories lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be brought to proof; In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. This is by no means the only place in which a hackneyed Latin quotation has its Greek analogue in these...
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