| 1810 - 538 pages
...thiuk, is .1mong the molt linking.' * Time rolls his cca'seless conrse. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...boy-hood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are diey blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered... | |
| Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...THIRD. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. CANTO THIRD. TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...boy-hood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...THE THE LADY OF THE LAKE CANTO THIRD. 1 1 ME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...boy-hood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...THE LADY OF THE LAKE. CANTO THIRD. I.. TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...boy-hood legends store, . Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and wither'd... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...clan, The pageant pomp of earthly man. Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...boy-hood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How they are blotted from the things that be! How few, all weak and withered... | |
| University of Glasgow - College prose, English - 1836
...the Brave ! SANQUHAR CASTLE. A LEGEND. Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea,— How are they blotted from the things that be ! Lady of the Lake, Canto III.... | |
| John S. Piercy - 1828 - 286 pages
...upon their knee, And told our marvelling' boyhood legend's store, Of their strange 'ventures hanp'd by land or sea^ How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and wUher'd in their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks,... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1829 - 466 pages
...deceitful day ! ' London Weekly Review. Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...store Of their strange ventures happed by land or seaj"~ How are they blotted from the tilings that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force,... | |
| John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1830 - 902 pages
...Governor for three successive terms of three years each. ' ACiED PERSONS. -The hands of yore That danc'd our infancy upon their knee And told our marvelling...boyhood, legends store, Of their strange ventures, hap'd by land and sea,— How they are blotted from the things that be !" THERE is something grateful... | |
| John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1833 - 336 pages
...spectacle of a finished villain, even in an Irish nobleman. AGED PERSONS. -The hands of yore That danc'd our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling...boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures, hap'd by land and sea, — How they are blotted from the things that be !" THERE is something grateful... | |
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