For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The Waverley Novels - Page 153by Walter Scott - 1859Full view - About this book
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...childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is ill my ears, Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird in the summer trees. The lark upon the hill,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
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| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
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| Walter Scott - Scotland - 1816 - 328 pages
...heart is idly stirr'd, < •.- ' •• For the same sound is in my ears . Which in these days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser...wound, and though the scar may remain and occasionally ache,yet the earliest agony of its recent infliction is felt no more." So saying, he shook Lovel cordially... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...Has oftencr left me mourning." or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. " Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away That what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 248 pages
...childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in these days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay; And yet the wiser...earliest agony of its recent infliction is felt no more.»—So saying, he shook Lovel cordially by * Prohahly Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads had not as... | |
| 1828 - 746 pages
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| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill,... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - English fiction - 1827 - 382 pages
...tears, My heart Is Idly stlrr'd, For the same sound la In mine ears, Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares It still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what it takes away, Than what It leaves behind." Perhaps I am fanciful in attributing to the old gentleman... | |
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