...joy Behind his plough upon the mountain side : By our own spirits are we deified ; We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befell, that...

...Leech-gatherer,' written a few days before, Wordsworth had his friend in mind when he said : We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness, for Coleridge had just written his ode on ' Dejection.' But as Coleridge had drawn in that ode a flattering...

...joy Behind his plough upon the mountain side : By our own spirits are we deified ; We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befell, that...

...burdened and soiled they fall wearily to the ground. You know what Wordsworth says : — " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." TALBOT. I will not believe that it is so ; but if it be, the fault must be traced to the disposition...

...joy Behind his plough upon the mountain side ; By our own spirits are we deified ; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel, that,...

...of the two moods of the Great British tradesman. 233 CHAPTER XVII. UP-HILL WORK. " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." A FTER this, Paul's affairs became a trifle -*••*- better, though still he had his troubles. And...

...joy Following his plough, along the mountainside: By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel, that,...

...did betray the heart that loved her," has told us, singing of Burns and Chatterton, — " Poets do begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." These melancholy lines are strictly applicable to the fate of Miss Landon, or LEL, as her admirers...

...poets in their misery dead," when in sudden mood of dejection he murmured to himself, We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness, he thought of Chatterton and of Burns, not of Shakspere. The early contemporaries of Shakspere —...

...As high as wo have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. ******* We poets in our youth begin in gladness?, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. It is but just to remember that the poet and satirist who taunted so continually the heavy ' Vetter...