 Like the idle gleam that December's beam Can dart on ice and snow. ' And fading, like that varied gleam, Is our inconstant shape, Who now like knight and lady seem, And now like dwarf and ape. ' It was between the night and day, When the Fairy King has...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Side 170af Walter Scott - 1822Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 sider
...varied gleam, Is our inconstant shape, Who now like knight and lady seem And now like dwarf and ape. " It was between the night and day, When the Fairy King...in a sinful fray, And, 'twixt life and death, was snatched away, To the joyless Elfin bower. " But wist I of a woman bold, Who thrice my brow durst sign,... | |
 | 1810 - 482 sider
...like dwarf and npe. " It wns between the night and day, " \\fcen the Fairy King has power, " That 1 sunk down in a sinful fray, " And, 'twixt life and death, was *natcbc4 away, " To the joyless Elfin bower. " But wist 1 of a woman bold, " Who thrice my brow durst... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 sider
...our inconstant shape, Who now like knight and lady seem, And now like dwarf and ape. " It was hetween the night and day, When the Fairy King has power,...in a sinful fray, And, 'twixt life and death, was snatched away, To the joyless Elfin hower. " But wist I of a woman hold, Who thrice my hrow durst sign,... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1826 - 568 sider
...carried off, and kept a year and a day, for accidentally intruding upon their midnight amusements : " It was between the night and day, When the fairy king has power, That he sunk down in a sinful fray, And, 'twixt life and death, was snatched away, To the joyless elfin... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sider
...varied gleam. Is our inconstant shape. Who now like knight and lady seem. And now like dwarf and ape. « It was between the night and day. When the fairy king...sinful fray, And, 'twixt life and death was snatch'd awnr To the joyless elfin bower. (11) « But wist lef n woman bold, Who thrice my brow durst sign.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 sider
...varied gleam, Is our inconstant shape, Who now like knight and lady seem, And DOW like dwarf and ape. « It was between the night and day, When the fairy king has power. That I sunk down in it sinful fray, And, 'twist life and dralh wns wiatch'd a«y To the joyless elfin bower, (u) « But... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 sider
...gleam, Is oar inconstant shape, Who now like knight and lady кет, And now like dwarf and ape. u It was between the night and day, When the fairy king...has power, That I sunk down in a sinful fray, And, 'twill life and death, was snatched away To the joyless elfin bower.12 " But wist I of a woman boid,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 sider
...name, while on a subject so closely connected with his extensive and curious researches. NOTE XII. - / sunk down in a sinful fray, And, 'twixt life and death, was snatch'd away To the joyless Elfin bower.— St. XV. p. 116. The subjects of Fairy-land were recruited from the regions of humanity by a sort of... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 558 sider
...is still reckoned a Dun-ski'. He fell down dead, as was believed ; but this was not his fate : — " It was between the night and day, When the fairy king has power, That he sunk down (but not) in sinful fray, b And, 'twixt life and death, was snatched away, To the joyless... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 sider
...is still reckoned a Dun Shi,' when he fell down dead, as was believed: but this was not his fate: " It was between the night and day, When the fairy king has power, That he «nnk down (but not) in sinful fray, And, 'twixt life and death, was snatched away, To (he joyless... | |
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