 My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate...  Notes and Queries - Page 2041900Full view - About this book
 | Cassell, ltd - 1869 - 400 pages
...in the other gradual Byron illustrated great truths in the " Prisoner of Chillon," when he wrote — "My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it...single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. " He distinguished the gradual greyish from slow and protracted nervous exhaustion, or excitement which... | |
 | Frei Luiz de Sousa - 1869 - 260 pages
...de Lord Byron que se referem a este notavel phenomeno, no Prisioneiro de Chillon : My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night As men's have grown from sudden fears. Nota D Diz-lhe que tudo isto foi vil e grosseiro imbuste dos inimigos d'esse homem pag. 139. Talvez... | |
 | João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett Almeida Garrett (Visconde de) - 1869 - 256 pages
...de Lord Byron que se referem a este notavel phenomeno, no Prisioneiro de Chillon : Mv hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night As men's have grown from sudden fears. Nota D Diz-lhe que tudo isto foi vil e grosseiro imbuste dos inimigos desse homem pag. 139. Talvez... | |
 | Acrostics - 1870 - 156 pages
...oft I'm only one. 4. Offspring of man, like other friends, leaves him ere life is done. T. 88 Their " hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white in a single night," Their garments are sombre, their eyes are bright, And their weapons are ready for this day's fight,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 768 pages
...projettait la fondation. THE PRISONER OF CIIILLO.V. My hair is grey, but not with years ; Nor grow it white In a single night,* As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, Rut rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
 | H F. Manley - 1871 - 324 pages
...worn pavement, and let their thoughts float them back to the days of tyranny while they read — " My hair is grey, but not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sadden fears;" &c., &c., &c. I fear I am not naturally of a romantic turn of mind, so I did not sit... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...Genevese, and died in 1570. The castle stands on the margin uf the Lake of Geneva.] My hair is gray, hut liam Cullen : J[y limbs are bowed, though not with toil, Hut rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
 | 1871 - 504 pages
...heroes. Macpherson 383 a. — And so perchance in sooth did mine. Byron 448 a. — My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night. Byron 447 a. — And did she think that ... he had dared to love her . . . James 620a. — Nor has... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...withered at the sight — A constant interchange of growth and blight ! BYRON. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white...single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, 5 But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...Genevese, and died Ь X570. The castle stands on the margin of the Lake of Geneva.] Mr hair is gray, lee recede, And the headland white we have left behind. The topsails flutter, the jibs collaps : Jty limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
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