| 1810 - 538 pàgines
...following, we thiuk, is .1mong the molt linking.' * Time rolls his cca'seless conrse. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are diey blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pàgines
...CANTO THIRD. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. CANTO THIRD. TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1811 - 458 pàgines
...course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boy-JIood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by...from the things that be ! •How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning... | |
| 1832 - 812 pàgines
...the Race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling childhood legend's store Of their strange 'ventures, happ'd by land or...blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak aiid withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks ! The tide... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pàgines
...free-born clan, The pageant pomp of earthly man. Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How they are blotted from the things that be! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the... | |
| William George Moss - 1824 - 304 pàgines
...And told our marvelling childhood legends store, Of their strange ventures, happ'd by sea or land, How are they blotted from the things that be. How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks : — the tide returning... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pàgines
...LADY OF THE LAKE. C.WTO THIRD. THE GATHERING. I. TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How they are blotted from the things that be ! . How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on... | |
| University of Glasgow - 1836
...Scotland the Brave ! SANQUHAR CASTLE. A LEGEND. Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...sea,— How are they blotted from the things that be ! Lady of the Lake, Canto III. THE venerable ruins of a feudal fortress are still seen by the traveller,... | |
| John S. Piercy - 1828 - 286 pàgines
...upon their knee, And told our marvelling' boyhood legend's store, Of their strange 'ventures hanp'd by land or sea^ How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and wUher'd in their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning... | |
| 1829 - 466 pàgines
...Life's deceitful day ! ' London Weekly Review. Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store Of their strange ventures happed by land or seaj"~ How are they blotted from the tilings that be ! How few, all weak and withered... | |
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