 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the Scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1861 - 502 pages
...gentlemen will fight duels, and how will it all end ? and * " These lovely things have mercy shown For every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame." — Byron. \ The Queen's trial. u-hen ? The eclipse next week too, ' tegunt nigrae latitantia sidera... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 582 pages
...gentlemen will fight duels, and how will it all end ? and * " These lovely things have mercy shown For every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame." — Byron. when ? The eclipse next week too, ' tegunt nigrae latitantia sidera nubes.' Indeed I have... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 496 pages
...gentlemen will fight duels, and how will it all end ? and * " These lovely things have mercy shown For every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame." — Byron. t The Queen's trial. when ? The eclipse next week too, ' tegunt nigrse latitantia sidera... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1862 - 370 pages
..."Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die.' " And lovel<er things have mercy shown "To every fa<ling but their own, "And every woe a tear can claim, "Except an erring sister's shame! " 7*s How truly despicable does pride appear, when fallen. Margaret, who had formerly been the severest... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every tailing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. UYRON. — The Giaour, Line 418. The graceful tear that streams for others' woes. ARENSIDE. — Pleasures... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1864 - 672 pages
...insects fluttering bj Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own; And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. Her husband's duties rendered it imperatively necessary that he should remain in the station ; but... | |
 | Timothy Titcomb - Conduct of life - 1867 - 262 pages
...distressed, Sure the most bitter Is a scornful jest. BAMITEL Jomreoir. And lOTelior things hare mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. ETHOS. I HAVE met with a good many young women, first and last, whose intellects were of that keen,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. Line 123. And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own ; And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. Line 418. Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock. Line 969. The cold in... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Sisterly, brotherly, * Fatherly, motherly, Feelings had changed : And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. BYRON. The Giaour. Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence ; Even God's providence Seeming... | |
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Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No: gayer insects fluttering by !Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing... 
