 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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. Tire TRIAL OF CONSTANCE. While round the fire such legends go, Far different was the scene of wo, Where,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 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. xxm. . " Now, hie thee hence," the Father said, " And when we are on death -bed laid, O may our dear... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought fo day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. XXIIL * Now, hie thee hence," the Father said, '• And when we are on death-bed laid, 0 may our dear... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...lasses, 0. Green grow the rushes. BURNS. In notes by distance made more sweet. The Passions. COLLINS. I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me. Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto ii. SCOTT. 1 L'Esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille. French Proverb.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. a I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I Bay the tale as 'twas said to me. XXIII. " Now, hie thee...Father said, " And when we are on death-bed laid, O may our dear Ladve, and sweet St John, Forgive our souls for the deed we have done 1 " The Monk return'd... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1856 - 754 pages
...lo Turpin, lo metto anch' io," says Ariosto, playfully, when he tells a particularly tough story. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me," •ays the author of the " Lay* on a similar occasion. The resemblance Burns. The book speedily found... | |
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 354 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...Father said, " And when we are on death-bed laid, O may our dear Ladye, and sweet St. John, Forgive our souls for the deed we have done ! " — o The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 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. 23 ' Now, hie thee hence,' the Father said, ' And when we are on death-bed laid, Oh may our dear Ladye,... | |
 | John Jordan - Enstone (England) - 1857 - 500 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. Such, however, was in former times the current of superstition, that the air was supposed to be if... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 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. 23 ' Now, hie thee hence/ the Father said, ' And when we are on death-bed laid, Oh 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... 
