 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 sayfa
...continued.] Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. Book ix. Line 44. Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. Book ix. Line 171. The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint. Book ix. Line 208. Smiles... | |
 | Spectre - 1875 - 346 sayfa
...laughed 'Ha! ha!' NOT 'Hia! ha !' he left it to Spoilers to indulge in that luxury ! CHAPTER VIII. ' Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.' — MlLTOM. A FEW weeks flew by, and I saw Ralph in a sick chamber. Sensitive, if strong, his constitution... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 sayfa
...drawn The bolt on my own head." Milton's Satan has a like tale to tell, where he soliloquizes that " Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils." Again and again in various of his works the late Lord Lytton was strenuous in writing down a cherished... | |
 | 1877 - 362 sayfa
...and our little life le rounded with a sleep. — SHAKEsPERE, Tempeit, act iv. ec. 1. Revenge — - REVENGE, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. MILTON, Paradise Lost, book ix. 1. 171. — Sweet is KEVENGE — especially to women. BYRON, Df/n Juan,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 sayfa
...revenge ! While to the short-lived momentary joy Succeeds a train of woes, an age of torments. frffwde. Revenge, at first, though sweet, Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. — Milton. 3002. REVENGE. Right of SPEAK not of vengeance ! 'tis the right of God. • Vengeance is... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 sayfa
...While to the short-lived momentary joy Succeeds a train of woes, an age of torments. FROWDE: PhUotas. Revenge, at first, though sweet, Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. MILTON. Some much averse I found, and wondrous harsh, Contemptuous, proud, set on revenge and spite.... | |
 | 1918 - 854 sayfa
...for revenge, h never pays believe me! Philosophy's the medicine for human mistakes As the poet says: "'Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.'" "Pish! Poetry! At your old game, eh? You were the only chauffeur I ever knew who recited poetry instead... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 sayfa
...Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first or last 170 To basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils : Let it; I reck not, so it light well aim'd, Since higher I fall short, on him who next Provokes my... | |
 | Mary Louisa Searle - 1881 - 406 sayfa
...and praise Remember Thee, and heavenward raise My song to Thee, my God." CHAPTER XXIII. UNDECEIVED. " Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils." Milton. j]OME home ; your mother is dangerously ill." Thus ran a telegram from Redcar Daunton to Niel... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 sayfa
...Descend to ? who aspires must down as low As high he soared, obnoxious first or last To basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils : Let it ; I reck not, so it light well aimed, Since higher I fall short, on him who next Provokes... | |
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