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... hand , my father , whose feelings might have been hurt by my quitting the bar , had been for two or three years dead , so that I had no control to thwart my own inclination ; and my income being equal to all the comforts , and some of ...
... hand , my father , whose feelings might have been hurt by my quitting the bar , had been for two or three years dead , so that I had no control to thwart my own inclination ; and my income being equal to all the comforts , and some of ...
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... hand - organ ; and besides , a long work in quatrains , whether those of the common ballad , or such as are termed elegiac , has an effect upon the mind like that of the bed of Procrustes upon the human body ; for , as it must be both ...
... hand - organ ; and besides , a long work in quatrains , whether those of the common ballad , or such as are termed elegiac , has an effect upon the mind like that of the bed of Procrustes upon the human body ; for , as it must be both ...
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... hands may not be cleansed . The face of golden Mean : Her sisters two , Extremities , Her strive to banish clean . " I entirely agreed with my friendly critic in the neces- sity of having some sort of pitch - pipe , which might make ...
... hands may not be cleansed . The face of golden Mean : Her sisters two , Extremities , Her strive to banish clean . " I entirely agreed with my friendly critic in the neces- sity of having some sort of pitch - pipe , which might make ...
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... hand , his voice though weak , He thought even yet , the sooth to speak , That , if she loved the harp to hear , He could make music to her ear . The humble boon was soon obtain'd ; The Aged Minstrel audience gain'd . But , when he ...
... hand , his voice though weak , He thought even yet , the sooth to speak , That , if she loved the harp to hear , He could make music to her ear . The humble boon was soon obtain'd ; The Aged Minstrel audience gain'd . But , when he ...
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... hand , As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been , By England's King , and Scotland's Queen . XXII . " Sir William of Deloraine , good at need , Mount thee on the wightest steed ; Spare not to spur , nor stint ...
... hand , As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been , By England's King , and Scotland's Queen . XXII . " Sir William of Deloraine , good at need , Mount thee on the wightest steed ; Spare not to spur , nor stint ...
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Page 27 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of, Border chivalry; For, well-a-day!
Page 149 - 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 burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him well...
Page 50 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Page 327 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming : And foresters have busy been, To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay." Waken, lords and ladies gay, To the greenwood haste away ; We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot and tall of size ; We can show the marks he made, When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed ; You shall see him brought to bay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Page 44 - In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime : Steady of heart, and stout of hand, As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been, By England's King, and Scotland's Queen.
Page 168 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle ; Each one the holy vault doth hold — But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St. Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds The dirge of lovely Rosabelle, [sung, XXIV.
Page 175 - 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 166 - Tis not because the ring they ride, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my sire the wine will chide If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle.
Page 149 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Page 306 - Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide ; All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied. On the right, Striden-edge round...