| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 str.
...as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader ! you would find A tale in every thing." and " I have heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still...the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning." or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. " Thus fares it still in our decay:... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 316 str.
...as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader ! you would find A tale in every thing." and " I have heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning : Alas ! the gratitude of men Has oftencr left me mourning." or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. " Thus... | |
| 1821 - 724 str.
...agree better with his constitutional temperament. Oh! how sympathy alters a man from what he was ! I've heard of hearts unkind, Kind deeds with coldness still returning ; Alas ! the gratitude of man Has oftencr set me mourning. A spirit of contradiction, a wish to monopolize all wisdom, will not... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 str.
...The tangled root I severed, At which the poor Old Mao so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tvars into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of bis heart, I thought They never would have done. —I 've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness... | |
| Robert Southey - 1832 - 442 str.
...and its powers, not inferior to the greatest of his predecessors, says upon this subject— ' I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning, Alas ! the gratitude of man Has oftener left me mourning !* WORDSWORTH. The experience of most good men would agree with the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 str.
...as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader ! you would find A tale in every thing." * and "I have heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still...the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning." or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134 : " Thus fares it still in our decay... | |
| 1834 - 864 str.
...throughout the country. * This beautiful sentence recalls Wordsworth's more beautiful stanza :— ' I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning ; Alas ! the gratitude of men Has ofteuer left me mourning.' — Simon Lee. ART. ART. XI. — Souvenirs Historiques sur la Revolution... | |
| 1839 - 538 str.
...touching stanza closing the little ballad of "Simon Lee" again and again recalled and quoted : — " I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning ; Alas ! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning." "What higher purpose need poetry seek, than that which is a pride of... | |
| Philip Massinger - 1840 - 756 str.
...of Dryden and Young, but painful from their weary iteration of complaint and acknowledgment — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning ; Alas ! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning — WORDSWORTH. Complaint seems to have become habitual to him, like... | |
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