 | John Bell - 1791 - 270 Seiten
...true, my hopes are vanishing as clouds, Lighter than children's bubbles blown by wind.. My merit's but the rash result of chance ? My birth unequal; all the stars against me; Pow'r, promise, choice, the living and the dead ; Mankind my foes, and only love my friend ; But such... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 500 Seiten
...clouds ; Lighter than children's bubbles blown by winds : My merit's but the rash result of chance \ 1 My birth unequal; all the stars against me : Power,...living and the dead ; Mankind my foes ; and only love to friend : But such a love, kept at such awful distance, As, what it loudly dares to tell a rival,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 Seiten
...true, my hopes are vanishing as clouds, Lighter than children's bubbles blown by wind ; My merit's but the rash result of chance ; My birth unequal ;...living and the dead ; Mankind my foes, and only love my friend ; But such a love, kept at such awful distance, As, what it loudly dares to tell, a rival... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 Seiten
...clouds, Lighter than children's bubbles blown by wind ; My merit's but the rash result of chance j My birth unequal ; all the stars against me ; Power,...living and the dead ; Mankind my foes, and only love my friend ; But such a love, kept at such awful distance, As, what it loudly dares to tell, a rival... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 522 Seiten
...true, my hopes are vanishing as clouds ; Lighter than children's bubbles blown by winds: My merit's but the rash result of chance ; \ My birth unequal...living and the dead ; Mankind my foes ; and only love to friend : But such a love, kept at such awful distance, As, what it loudly dares to tell a rival,... | |
 | Emma Robinson - 1845 - 890 Seiten
...Strafford. CHAPTER V. " "Pis true, ray hopes are vanishing as clouds, Lighter than children's baubles blown by winds ; My merit, but the rash result of...living and the dead ; Mankind my foes, and only Love to friend me." INGTLPH had no reason to rejoice in the measures of the Long Parliament ; for their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 Seiten
...true, my hopes are vanishing as clouds; Lighter than children's bubbles blown by winds: My merit's but the rash result of chance : My birth unequal: all the stars against me: Pow'r, promise, choice, the living and the dead: Mankind my foes; and only love my friend: But such... | |
 | Cuthbert Bede - 1857 - 228 Seiten
...baseness to deny my love. 'Tis true, my hopes are vanishing as clouds, Lighter than children's bubbles blown by winds ; My merit but the rash result of chance, My birth unequal ; all the stars against me.' — DBYDKM. ' Oh, he is lost in a fond maze of love, The idle truantry of callow boys ! I'd sooner... | |
 | Cuthbert Bede - 1857 - 222 Seiten
...baseness to deny my lovo. 'Tis true, my hopes are vanishing as clouds, Lighter than children's bubbles blown by winds ; My merit but the rash result of chance, My birth unequal ; all the stars against me.' — DnYDEX. ' Oh, he is lost in a fond maze of love, The idle truantry of callow boys ! I'd sooner... | |
 | Cuthbert Bede - 1857 - 226 Seiten
...love. 'Tis true, my hopes are vanishing as clouds, Lighter than children's bubbles blown by winds j My merit but the rash result of chance, My birth unequal; all the stars against me."—DRYDEN. ' Oh, he is lost in a fond maze of love, The idle truantry of callow boys ! I'd sooner... | |
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Mankind my foes ; and only love to friend : But such a love, kept at such awful distance, As, what it loudly dares to tell a rival, Shall fear to whisper there. Queens may be loved, And so may gods ; else why are altars raised ? Why shines the sun, but... 
