 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...utmost hopes ; I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience : but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at, — O! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there where I have... | |
 | William Cook - 1805 - 240 pages
...philosophic temper could they sit in a crowded theatre, surrounded by the winkers, laughers, and sneerers, A fixed figure for the hand of Scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ? The patient endurance of such a scene, is almost above the feeling of humanity... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...my hopes ; * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But alas, to make me A fixed figure for the hand of Scorn To point his slow and moving finger at (72) Yet could I bear that too, well, very well. But there, where I have garnered up my heart, Where... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...hopes ; I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But alas, to make me Affixed figure for the hand of Scorn To point his slow and moving finger at (72) Yet could I bear that too, well, very well. But there, where I have garnered up my heart, Where... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highland (Scotland) - 1815 - 312 pages
...Here he stood three Sundays successively, his face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at." Cromek's Remains, 206. There happened, a very few years ago, a fatal instance... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 312 pages
...and my hopes ; I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But alas, to make me A fixed figure for the hand of Scorn To point his slow and moving finger at (72) Yet could I bear that too, well, very well. But there, where I have garnered up my heart, Where... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...utmost hopes ; 1 should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the hand of Scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at,— O! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well: But there, where I have garner'd... | |
 | Cochin China - 1819 - 716 pages
...CHAPCHAPTER V. It was, I weene, a comely sight To see sae trim a boy. OLD BALLAD. Alas ! to make me A fixed figure, for the hand of Scorn To point his slow uumoving finger at ! SHAKESPEARE. THE visions which appeared to Matt's imagination were not by any... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 436 pages
...Here be stood three Sundays successively, his face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at.'' Cromek's Remains, 2fi6. * Not long since, in a certain parish in Ayrshire, a... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 568 pages
...Here he stood three Sundays successively, his1 face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at/' Cromek's Remains, 2fi6. * Not long since, in a certain parish in Ayrshire, a serious,... | |
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A fixed figure, for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at, — Yet I could bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart ; Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current... 
