 | Everhardus Johannes Potgieter - 1875 - 438 páginas
...fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die And lovelier things have mercy shown To ev'ry failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shamc; maar ik had u de herinnering niet moeten mededeelen. Gij zijt nog in die jaren, waarin het leven... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 páginas
...insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. LORD BYRON. WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY. I LOVED thee once, I 'll love no more, Thine be the grief as is the... | |
 | 1876 - 508 páginas
...insects fluttering by, Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die ; And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own ; And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. LORD BYRON. TWO WOMEN. 183 Two Women. THE shadows lay along Broadway, 'Twas near the twilight tide,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 páginas
...— A God all MERCY is a God unjust. YOUNG, Night Thoughts. — And lovelier things have MERCY shown To every failing but their own ; And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame.— BYRON, The Giaour. — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of MERCY on... | |
 | 1877 - 574 páginas
...alo:ic nrt worthy ! " OEO. Lr,oYr>. " Twas ever so ! 'twas ever so ! Lovers' vows are traced in snow." " And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame." WB JEL WILLIAM, FIRST DUKE OP QUEENSBERRY. (5th S. vii. 243 ; riii. 10.) " Edinb. 16th July, 1688.... | |
 | Mrs. Forrester - 1878 - 376 páginas
...regard to Viva, Byron's words were as true of Gertrude Ryvendale as they are of all good women, — "And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame." She has quite forgotten that the Viva of olden days was a delicate, sensitive, high-minded girl : she... | |
 | Where, Who - 1878 - 186 páginas
...Hud1bras, pt. ii. canto iii. And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. GOLDSMITH, The Traveller. And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. BYRON, The Giaour. And fade into the light of common day. WORDSWORTH, Ode on Immortality. And fancy... | |
 | 1879 - 798 páginas
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? OKAY, Elegy. And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. BYRON , The Giaour. In al deze aanhalingen komt het tegenw. deelw. bijvoegelrjk gebruikt wordt; dikwijls... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 páginas
...insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die. And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame." The four concluding lines are nearly as familiar as Scott's " Oh, woman, in our hours of ease," as... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 páginas
...insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame." The four concluding lines are nearly as familiar as Scott's " Oh, woman, in our hours of ease," as... | |
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Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No: gayer insects fluttering by !Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing... 
