| English literature - 1807 - 542 pages
...,>hak»peare says, " out of all cess," we shall make no apology for quoting ¡ — " HALLAD. "They made lier a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true : And she1« gone to tbc Lake of the DISMAL SWAMF, Where all IIIL-J.' long, by a Fire-fly lamp •, She paddles... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 328 pages
...dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or been lost in some of its dreadful morasses.1* ANOST. 1 HEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so...by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. . •, * The Great Dismal Swamp is ten or twelve miles distant from Norfolk, and the Lake in the middle... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 370 pages
...dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." ANON. *' THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul...true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp1, " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. 1 The Great Dismal... | |
| United States - 1807 - 442 pages
...the reader think, as we do, he will be quite satisfied with the insertion of the first stanza. 1 " They made her a grave, too cold and damp, For a soul...long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. But if this should not satiate the reader, peradventure, the second stanza will be sufficient;—if... | |
| Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 234 pages
...that he perished in some of the dangerous morasses that environ it. THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP. « They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...fire-fly * lamp, She 'paddles her white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving our life shall be,... | |
| Thomas Condie - 1813 - 262 pages
...into that dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or keen lost in some of its dreadful morasses. " THEY made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...night long, by a fire.fly lamp, She paddles her white сaпoе : " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...Swamp, which contains about two hundred and fifty square miles, between Alexandria and Virginia. " They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...Fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. And her Fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be... | |
| Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...Shakvfpmrc's £ (we think with lustice), inriTled them as hifc ccxi. THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP ". " They made her a grave too cold and damp, " For a soul...by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. * This affecting little piece is from the pen of Mr. Thomas Moore, and is founded, he tells us, on... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 344 pages
...in some of its dreadful morasses.—Anon. La Poe'sie a ses monstres comme la Nature.—D'ALEMBERT. " THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul...fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, " And her paddle I soon shall hear ; " Long and loving our life shall... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 348 pages
...some of its dreadful morasses. — Anon. La Poesie a ses monstres comme la Nature. — D'ALEMBERT. " THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul...fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, " And her paddle I soon shall hear ; " Long and loving our life shall... | |
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