 | Frances E. Bevan - 1909 - 104 pàgines
...age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. 78. They do not err Who say, that, when the poet dies,...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies. 79. Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now and what has been, Seems as to me of all... | |
 | William Murison - 1910 - 416 pàgines
...human action, either by sympathy or by antipathy, we have what has been termed " pathetic fallacy." " Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say that,...and cavern lone For the departed Bard make moan." APOSTROPHE. There are two varieties of apostrophe. The first is when a personified object is addressed... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pàgines
...art a nature.— DISRAELI, ISAAC, 1796-1818, Vers de Societl, Literary Character of Men of Genius. ea makes moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1911 - 226 pàgines
...21st of September 1832. Prophetically he had sung of his own death in the words of the Last Minstrel: Call it not vain, they do not err, Who say, that when...That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groans reply;... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pàgines
...poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre not for fame. 3920 Byron: English Bards Line 174 Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that,...That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply;... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pàgines
...poet's sacred name, vVho rack their brains for lucre not for fame. 3920 Byron : English Bards Line 174 Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that,...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say, tall cliif, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That... | |
 | William Winter - 1911 - 362 pàgines
...extravagant fancy; yet they do occur to wise writers. Even Sir Walter causes his Minstrel to exclaim: Call it not vain : — they do not err Who say that...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies. As recently as December, 1910, a legal decision discredited the claim of the Duke of Argyll to Dunstaffnage... | |
 | William Tuckwell - 1911 - 80 pàgines
...stood round, and joined their grief to mine. 1 And the thought is caught up by Scott (Lay v. i) : — Call it not vain ! they do not err, Who say, that...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies, etc. In the rout that made the hideous roar, rout is Lat. ruptus, a confused broken crowd. So Comus... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 pàgines
...NEALE. ') obsequies. Her obsequies have been as far enlarged | As we have warranty. Ha ml., V, 1, 250. Call it not vain: — they do not err, | Who say,...mourns her worshipper, | And celebrates his obsequies. SCOTT, Lay, V, i. (out)skirts. i. We found a party of Uhlans reconnoitring in the outskirts of Grandpre... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 758 pàgines
...sore, It is not we who are touched. Westm. Gaz. , No. 5418, Ic. Note a) Such a sentence as Call if not vain: — they do not err, \ Who say, that, when...the Poet dies, \ Mute Nature mourns her worshipper (SCOTT, Lay, V, i) admits of two interpretations. The clause opening with who may be considered either... | |
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CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That... 
