...malady, the French "mal du siecle" or "ennui." Byron describes it as "that settled ceaseless gloom . . . That will not look beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before." Page 98. / resolved to give up my life. Chateaubriand tells us that he had tried to take his life in...

...observation that Pomp and power alone are woman's care, And where these are, light Eros finds afeere; Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And...beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before. This is the consummation of human misery; and if it had been the author's principal object, in delineating...

...have scarce a charm for me. 5 It is that settled, ceaseless gloom The fabled Hebrew wanderer bore; 855 That will not look beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before. What Exile from himself can flee? 1 Yet others rapt in pleasure seem, And taste of all that I forsake;...

...Childe himself names his malady: It is that settled, ceaseless gloom The fabled Hebrew Wanderer bore; That will not look beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before. ("To Inez": I, following 84) These are still not the most important of his prototypes, however: most...

...eyes have scarce a charm for me. It is that settled, ceaseless gloom The fabled Hebrew wanderer bore; That will not look beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before. Whai Exile from himself can flee?. To zones though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er...

...stanzas 'to Inez' in Cbilde Harold: It is that settled, ceaseless gloom The fabled Hebrew wanderer bore; That will not look beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before. The supposed hero's life is blighted, like Hamlet's, by 'the Demon Thought' (Cbilde Harold, after I,...

...from all I prized the roost? "It is that settled, ceaseless gloom, The fabled Hebrew prophet bore, That will not look beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before.' The following extract from the speech of Theodore Christlieb, DD, of Bonn, Prussia, delivered before...

...himself to the Wandering Jew: "It is that settled, ceaseless gloom / The fabled Hebrew Wanderer bore; / That will not look beyond the tomb, / But cannot hope for rest before" (1.86.26-29). And Manfred also wants to forget his crime through self-oblivion: . . . — I have prayed...

...too highly coloured, it is needless to comment on that settled despair, ' That will not look btyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before.' — (p....picture might be vindicated as consistent and useful. In that case, however, it would have been doubly essential to devest the ' Childe' of his chivalrous title...

...eyes have scarce a charm for me It is that settled, ceaseless gloom The fabled Hebrew wanderer bore; That will not look beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before. What Exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er...