When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go—... The Living Age - Página 1021923Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1805 - 948 páginas
...live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er die dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St....returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt;... | |
| 1812 - 762 páginas
...hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while— Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly Swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. . No. 2Ц7, " When the bell toll'd one, and the moon was bright, And I dug his chamber among the dead,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1805 - 340 páginas
...live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 páginas
...When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St David's ruined...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt,... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 páginas
...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then pp — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile, And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! P. 33. But the imagery and language in the following pages are awful and tenifick in the extreme,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1807 - 382 páginas
...heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the whileThen view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. . Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 310 páginas
...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 páginas
...live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad- and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair : With dagger's hilt,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 páginas
...When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St David's ruined...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair: With dagger's hilt... | |
| 1838 - 884 páginas
...to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St David's mined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." The second couplet has no business there — and forcibly brings before us an image which should have been... | |
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