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... MARMION THE LADY OF THE LAKE An Hour with Thee The Lay of Poor Louise Song of the Glee - Maiden THE VISION OF DON RODERICK SONGS FROM THE PLAYS . ROKEBY ... THE LORD OF THE ISLES The Sun upon the Lake . Admire not that I gain'd THE ...
... MARMION THE LADY OF THE LAKE An Hour with Thee The Lay of Poor Louise Song of the Glee - Maiden THE VISION OF DON RODERICK SONGS FROM THE PLAYS . ROKEBY ... THE LORD OF THE ISLES The Sun upon the Lake . Admire not that I gain'd THE ...
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... Marmion and the Heart of Midlothian , than the spirit of England by Childe Harold , or that of Ireland by the Peninsular campaigns . We read in the early ages of the world how whole nations sprang from , and were known by the name of ...
... Marmion and the Heart of Midlothian , than the spirit of England by Childe Harold , or that of Ireland by the Peninsular campaigns . We read in the early ages of the world how whole nations sprang from , and were known by the name of ...
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... Marmion " or a " Bride of Lammermoor . " Indeed , except as the opinion of so distinguished a man as Scott , it would hardly deserve examination . For what human being would seriously pretend to compare with each other things so ...
... Marmion " or a " Bride of Lammermoor . " Indeed , except as the opinion of so distinguished a man as Scott , it would hardly deserve examination . For what human being would seriously pretend to compare with each other things so ...
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... Marmion , " the most powerful of the poems , followed in 1808 ; when also Scott published an elaborate edition of Dryden . Some similar work in the way of skilful editing or compiling he almost always had on hand ; he did as much thus ...
... Marmion , " the most powerful of the poems , followed in 1808 ; when also Scott published an elaborate edition of Dryden . Some similar work in the way of skilful editing or compiling he almost always had on hand ; he did as much thus ...
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... Marmion , ” and , less successfully , though even here with much grace , in " Triermain ; " but they are not wrought up into a whole ; they do not form an integral portion of the poem . On the other hand , the metrical descriptions of ...
... Marmion , ” and , less successfully , though even here with much grace , in " Triermain ; " but they are not wrought up into a whole ; they do not form an integral portion of the poem . On the other hand , the metrical descriptions of ...
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Page 103 - The bride kiss'd the goblet, the knight took it up, He quaff 'd off the wine and he threw down the cup; She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — " Now tread we a measure !
Page 103 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 104 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar ? XIII.
Page 441 - God before her moved, An awful guide in smoke and flame, By day, along the astonished lands, The cloudy pillar glided slow; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow. There rose the choral hymn of praise, And trump and timbrel answered keen; And Zion's...
Page 49 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 42 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly...
Page 118 - Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire, And shook his very frame for ire, And — "This to me!" he said; "An 'twere not for thy hoary beard, Such hand as Marmion's had not spared To cleave the Douglas' head! And first I tell thee, haughty peer, He who does England's message here, Although the meanest in her state, May well, proud Angus, be thy mate! And, Douglas, more I tell thee here...
Page 103 - He staid not for brake, and he stopp'd not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Page 136 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Page 96 - When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep...