 | 1867 - 740 էջ
...apply to the pleasant memories I should be sorry to have vanished altogether from my remembrance : ' I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most : Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.' " One first and last peep at Mr. John Moncton, the hero par excellence,... | |
 | 1872 - 516 էջ
...memory, so all unutterably dear to her : by these, without any words, she often seemed to say — • " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." You heard it when she sang, still not those words. She had a pleasant... | |
 | 1850 - 602 էջ
...breathes such sweetness and sacredness. The key-note of the whole is struck at the beginning : — " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; "fis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."* And the same sentiment seeks... | |
 | Beulah Kezia Hanson - 1845 - 410 էջ
...-wear on, I hunger more To see your face again before I die. ALEXANDEB SMITH. ~i hold it true, whatc'cr befall, I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. TENNYSON. GAINIpassoveranintervaloffouryears. During this period no... | |
 | 1871 - 704 էջ
...tenderness and elegance few prose men of his day could have rivalled. Tennyson's words are these : — " I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow moat; "Пз better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.'" In Mtmoriam, xxvii. Congreve's... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 էջ
...The heart that never plighted troth. But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow rao«t; 'Tis bfttfr to hin-f, brred and /ojl, Than never to hare tared at all. JOSEPH AND nis BRKTHIU.N.—... | |
 | 1850 - 662 էջ
...heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth ; Nor any want begotten rest. " I hold it true whate'er befall — I feel it when...loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all." The reader must already have discovered that this poem is characterized by thorough " subjectivity." We... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 էջ
...The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth, Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVIII. THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid... | |
 | 1850 - 744 էջ
...The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth, Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to bave loved at all. only pure philosophy. Secular knowledge is humbled before loving faith,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 էջ
...The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth, Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. 44 XXVIII. THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid... | |
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I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. 
