...emotion we lose ourselves f Have we not often realised the truth of the words of a great thinker — " I hold it true whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most, "Pis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all? " Why do we regard the worn and...

...sublato, &c. Compare the whole of this passage with the poem of Tennyson, in which he says he envies not The heart that never plighted troth, But stagnates...I sorrow most': 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. tractdbilis, " open to the touch of sympathy." — difftmdantur, "expand...

...license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes ; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that...I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when 1 sorrow most ; 'T is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. THE time draws...

...tenderness and elegance few prose men of his day could have rivalled. Tennyson's words are these : — " I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.'" In Mcmoriam, xxvii. Congreve's pretty thought is not quite a parallel...

...the third and fourth lines, imparts an uncommon tone, — • / " I hold it true whate'er befall ; II feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Thau never to have loved at all." The lost friend, dying at Vienna, was borne to England and buried...

...license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes ; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that...and lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVIII. HE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells...

...license in the field of time, Unfettered by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes : Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that...sorrow most, — 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. cv. RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty...

...dim faint dream. Therefore can we, who believe in these things, say, with fulness of meaning — " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all :" not only because the light and the consecration of love remain ;...

...crying in the night, And with no language but a cry." Yet had he full sympathy with the sentiment — " I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most, 'Twere better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all." By the empty crib, in the darkened...

...prove, That every cloud that spreads above, And veileth love— itself is love. Tennyson. LOST LOVE. I HOLD it true,— whate'er befall ; I feel it when...I sorrow most : 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Ibid. INNOCENCE AND LOVE. SHE was innocent : And to lie innocent is...