 | 1821 - 542 pagina’s
...feed upon opinions, errors, dreams And make them truths: I'm, draw a nourishment Out of defaming}: grow upon disgraces; And when they see a virtue fortified...above the battery of their tongues. Oh. how they cast about to sink it. TO SAPPHO.* The Phrygian rock, that braves the storm, * Ogilvie, in his Essay on... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pagina’s
...feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make them truths ; they draw a nourishment Out of defamings ; grow upon disgraces ; And when they see a virtue fortified...battery of their tongues ; Oh ! how they cast to sink it : and defeated (Soul sick wish poison) strike the monuments Where noble names lie sleeping, till they... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1825 - 388 pagina’s
...upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make them truths ; — they draw a nourishment Out of defamings ; grow upon disgraces ; And when they see a virtue fortified...battery of their tongues, Oh ! how they cast to sink it ! — . BEAUMONT. IF the proceedings of the first evening had excited feelings in Welsted's mind diametrically... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1825 - 308 pagina’s
...upon opinion, errors, dreams, And make them truths ; — they draw a nourishment Out of defamings ; grow upon disgraces ; And when they see a virtue fortified...battery of their tongues, Oh ! how they cast to sink it !— BlACXOVT. IF the proceedings of the first evening had excited feelings in Welsted's mind diametrically... | |
 | 1825 - 298 pagina’s
...feed upon opinions, errors, dream;, And make them truths: they draw n nourishment Out of defamings ; grow upon disgraces ; And when they see a virtue fortified Strongly, above the battery of their tongues, On ! how they cast to sink it ! Btaumoni. dition of one or two visitors, were assembled in the drawing-room,... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1838 - 654 pagina’s
...upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make them truths ; — they draw a nourishment Out of defamings ; grow upon disgraces ; And when they see a virtue fortified...battery of their tongues, Oh ! how they cast to sink it ! — BEAUMONT. IF the proceedings of the first evening had excited feelings in Welsted's mind diametrically... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840 - 754 pagina’s
...feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make 'em truths ; they draw a nourishment I tat of defaming*, grow upon disgraces ; And, when they see a virtue...battery of their tongues, Oh, how they cast to sink it ; and, defeated, it Soul-sick with poison) strike the monuments Where noble names lie sleeping ; till... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 pagina’s
...feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make them truths : they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces, And when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the battery of their tongue, Oh, how they cast to sink it 1 and defeated, (Soul-sick with poison) strike the monuments Where... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 pagina’s
...feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make them truths : they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces, And when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the battery of their tongue, Oh, how they cast to sink it ! and defeated. (Soul-sick with poison) strike the monuments Where... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pagina’s
...truths ; they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces ; And, when they see a goodness fortified Strongly above the battery of their tongues, Oh, how they cast to sink it ! and, defeated, Soul-sick with poison strike the monuments Where noble names He sleeping." Beginning... | |
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Not with the living ; They feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make 'em truths ; they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces ; And, when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the battery of their tongues, Oh, how they cast to... 
