 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool : Envied, jet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind...storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
 | 1816 - 692 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool: Envied, jet how unenviable! what stings Are theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind...their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last. That should their days, surviving perils past, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, Melt to calm... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pages
...unteach mankind the lust to rule,' he describes their nature and their fate in these fine stanzas : ' Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yej how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs? One breast laid, open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule : XLIV. /•. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last,... | |
 | 1821 - 656 pages
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness — " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
 | 1821 - 658 pages
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness — " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pages
...becomes business, hours of excitement are frenzy and irritation, the rest languor and irksomeness— " Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride." But the musings of age are calm and its hopes not fallacious, while the melancholy feeling that accompanies... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool; Envied, yet how unenviable! what stings Are theirs! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule • XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable! what slings Are theirs! One breast for flight? Or is that instrument more fit for fight ¥ " "Misdoubting Corsair! I have gain'd Thatshould theirdays, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...theirs ! One breast laid open were a school Which would untuach mankind the Inst to shine or rule. XLIV. Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nurs'd and bigotted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight,... | |
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Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, And are themselves the fools to those they fool... 
