 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 pàgines
...fifth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel ? "Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say tall c'iff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ;...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pàgines
...To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. NATURE MOURNING FOR POETS. 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 the breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply ;... | |
 | 1839 - 556 pàgines
...and beloved land, mourned the loss of their minstrels faithful song. In his own touching strains, " Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say, that...the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in chrystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil, Through his lov'd groves that breezes sigh, And... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 pàgines
...stranger coincidence remains, for both died upon the same day. If it be indeed true then, that, — " they do not err Who say that when the Poet dies Mute...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies," — how shall we be able to estimate the grief which pervaded Spain and England, on the 12th of April,... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pàgines
...beside him laid ! Enough — he died the death of fame ; Enough— he died with conquering Graeme. 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 groan, reply... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 238 pàgines
...left no echo on the shore, we cannot take to ourselves the beautiful creed of the lust 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 groan reply, And... | |
 | English life - 1840 - 372 pàgines
...passage in the lay of the Last Minstrel, which he had thus noticed with a pencil in reading it to her. " Call it not vain, they do not err Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies." &e. And then Mr. Rollestone's pencilled lines ; " And knows not he, to whom belong The deepest mysteries... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pàgines
...well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. S,as nf UK iL.ial iftinstrrl. CANTO FIFTH. I. 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... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pàgines
...— he fell mute, without even a groan , at the very base of the sacred chapel. (Bulwer'i Pompeii.) Call it not vain — they do not err, Who say, that,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. (if. Scott's Lay.) Long mn/ r he stood , and leaning on his staff, His wonder witness'd with an idiot... | |
 | 1841 - 474 pàgines
...name of HILLHOUSE will not be forgotten. May we not apply the beautiful words of a brother bard ? " Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that, when a Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies; Who say, tall cliff,... | |
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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... 
