 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 Seiten
...favourite lines of poetry and so forth ; and in one, still extant, I quoted as my favourite lines : From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 Seiten
...sweeter Than love's, who fears to greet her, To men that mix and meet her From many times and lands. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up ncver ; That even the weariest river Winds... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1866 - 370 Seiten
...and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds... | |
 | 1867 - 616 Seiten
...and, •las I of a dark and terrible philosophy, the author has condensed the entirety of his belief: "From too much love of living, From hope and fear...free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever gods may be : That no life lives forever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1867 - 422 Seiten
...and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1882 - 524 Seiten
...this by the force and sincerity of its tone. Mr. Swinburne is great in such a passage as this : — ' From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 358 Seiten
...and fretful, With lips but half-regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 700 Seiten
...another phase of sentiment, as morbid as the last : From too much love of living, From fear of death set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Gods there be, That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river, Winds somewhere safe... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 Seiten
...and fretful, With lips but half-regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds... | |
 | 1882 - 524 Seiten
...this by the force and sincerity of its tone. Mr. Swinburne is great in such a passage as this : — ' From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never : That even the weariest river Winds... | |
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. 
