 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1848 - 772 pages
...sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 't was said to me. XXIII. '' Now, hie thee hence," the Father said, "And when we are on death-bed laid,... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 332 pages
...FRIEND'S STORY. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE GAMBLER'S WIFE," "DAUGHTERS," "SYBIL LENNARD," &c. &c. &c. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as t'was said to me." SCOTT. VOL. II. LONDON : TC NEWBY, 72, MORTIMER STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. 1848. ALINE. CHAPTER I. "... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 340 pages
...FRIEND'S STORY. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE GAMBLER'S WIFE," "DAUGHTERS," "SYBIL LENNARD," &c. &c. &c. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as t'was said to me." SCOTT. VOL. I. LONDON: TC NEWBY, 72, MORTIMER STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. 1848. ALINE. CHAPTER I " Ye... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot...truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. THE TRIAL OF CONSTANCE. While round the fire such legends go, Far different was the scene of wo, Where,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1866 - 674 pages
...ACHEKTE. [Our apology for the following reply to this query must be that of Sir Walter Scott : — " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me,"— which is, that an ignorant official connected with the American Congress, whose duty it was to check... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man : As if the fiends kept holiday, ohn Aikin An' had it not Been ms ministry. All, between home and and hermitage, Talk'd of Lord Cranstoun's goblin... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I caanot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. THE TRIAL OF CONSTANCE. While round the fire such legends go, Far different was the scene of wo, Where,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cartwright Penrose - France - 1851 - 642 pages
...Hurrah ! for the jolly tars ! I hope the story is true, for the honour of the British navy. Mrs. M. " I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Before we dismiss from our memories Louis XVI. " and his times," it will not be uninteresting to take... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literature - 1852 - 330 pages
...his story may be too much for the reader's faith, he puts in such a makeweight as the following : " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Other examples will be found in Cantos V. 6, V. 13r VI. 5. Twice however in the course of the poem... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday. Because these spells were brought to-day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. "Now, hie thee hence," the Father said, " And when we are on death-bed laid, O may our dear Ladye,... | |
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Tis said, as through the aisles they pass'd, They heard strange noises on the blast ; And through the cloister-galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall Loud sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man; As if... 
