 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 364 páginas
...a loftier head ' And be the Spartan's epitaph on me — " Sparta hath many a worthier son than he." Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns...the tree I planted ; they have torn me, and I bleed : 1 should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. XI. The spouseless Adriatic mourns... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1859 - 284 páginas
...find Byron's obligations to Gibbon referred to in any edition of his works ; take as instances : — " Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted— they have torn me— and I bleed." Childe Harold, iv. 11. " Alas... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 páginas
...ignoble purposes. How applicable are the following lines of the great poet to himself : — "The thorns I planted, they have torn me, and I bleed ; I should...known what fruit would spring from such ' a seed." -Childe Harold. Byron wanted the apathy peculiar to old age, which ie a good substitute for patience;... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 páginas
...sympathies, nor need; The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted, — they have lorn me, — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such * seed. The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord; And, annual marriage now no more renewed, The Bucentaur... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 páginas
...a loftier head ! And be the Spartan's epitaph on me — " Sparta hath many a worthier son than he." Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. XL The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord ; And, annual marriage now no more renew'd, The Bucentaur... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 páginas
...head ! Ami be the Spartan's epitaph on me — "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."« Me-ntime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted,— rtey have torn me,— and I bleed : I should hive known what fruit would spring from inch • teed.... | |
 | J. B. Ripley - 1861 - 172 páginas
...suffered to abide among them. "The way of a transgressor is hard." " The thorns which I have reaped, are of the tree I planted. They have torn me, and I bleed. I might have known the fruit would spring from such a seed." 9* 2. Do not sacrifice one moment's peace... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - 1861 - 1102 páginas
...(Tremendous applause.) Already the lamentation of its votaries has gone forth : " The thorns I have reaped are of the tree I planted. They have torn me, and I bleed." Mr. Cowdiri's Speech. 5 says : " No men occupy so splendid a place in history as those who have founded... | |
 | 1861 - 356 páginas
...Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. DE. JOHNSON. Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need; The thorns which I have reaped arc of the tree I planted, they have torn me, and I bleed; I should have known what fruit would... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1862 - 348 páginas
...drags through, though storms keep out the sun, And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on. The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed." BYRON. THERE came a day after weary waiting, when the peasant postman, in his blouse and badge, left... | |
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Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. 
