 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...heart that never plighted troth, But stagnates in the weeds of sloth ; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'T is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVIII. THE time draws near... | |
 | Lewis Scharf - 1875 - 598 pages
...heart that beats no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore And in the hearing of the wave — again I hold it true whate'er befall I feel it when I sorrow most Tie better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Immediately after the publication... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 686 pages
...likely to be punished for her imprudence with infinitely greater severity than he ; but what then ? 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, murmurs poor Clarissa ; and really there is not the slightest reason... | |
 | Joseph Machlis - 1982 - 434 pages
...face lit up as he recited, in a gravelly voice, the famous lines from Tennyson's elegy for his friend: I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I...loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. The professor belonged to the last generation that had been taught to declaim poetry; he practically sang... | |
 | Jerold Savory, Patricia Marks - 1985 - 258 pages
..." 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all," he gives, I hold it best, whate'er befall — I feel it when I sorrow most — Tis better to have quail on toast Than not to have a quail at all. As he claims, " 'I sell such a thing as that for three... | |
 | Carol T. Olson - 1993 - 232 pages
...school. It is always easier to be the one who can help than the one who needs help." Immortal treasure 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. (p. 138) "To pass through life uncaring would be mere existence. To... | |
 | Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 178 pages
...have passed away, may the winds of heaven whisper hourly benedictions over their hallowed graves. • "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." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson DEDICATION • To the power of the human... | |
 | Roy F. Baumeister, Sara R. Wotman - 1994 - 256 pages
...takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." — CHARLIE BROWN (Charles Schultz) / 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. — ALFRED LORD TENNYSON "I'm not saying it didn't happen. But you'd... | |
 | Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 178 pages
...have passed away, may the winds of heaven whisper hourly benedictions over their hallowed graves. • "I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most; Tig better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson DEDICATION... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." This was written in Peking in 1934. 1135 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. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, "In Memoriam AHH" [Arthur Henry Hallam], stanza... | |
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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. 
