Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. My object in life - Página 92por Frederic William Farrar - 1833 - 115 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1877 - 660 páginas
...feelings in the following touchingly sad wail Seemingly weary of life, and weary at heart, he says: "Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health. Nor peace within,...around, Nor that content, surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found,— And walked in leisure, glory crowned,— Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 442 páginas
...dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean ni. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within...around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure.... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 376 páginas
...and a tone Arises from its measured motion, — How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion ! Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within...; Nor that content, surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned; Nor fame nor power nor love nor leisure. Others... | |
| Daniel Hack Tuke - 1878 - 282 páginas
...state of mind depicted by Shelley in the depressing lines :— " Alas ! I have nor life nor breath, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that content,...surpassing wealth, The sage in contemplation found." No one can speak more feelingly of the pressure of the age in which we live than Mr. Gladstone, " The... | |
| Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 páginas
...me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. " Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within,...around, Nor that content surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd ; Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure.... | |
| Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 páginas
...recollect rightly, the truth flashes across him for a moment, amid the clouds of selfish sorrow — Alas, I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within,...around; Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned. 'Nor' alas for the spiritual bathos, which... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 páginas
...round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within...around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure.... | |
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