 When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go—...  The Living Age - Side 1021923Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1805 - 948 sider
...live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er die dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St....returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt;... | |
 | 1812 - 762 sider
...hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while— Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly Swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. . No. 2Ц7, " When the bell toll'd one, and the moon was bright, And I dug his chamber among the dead,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 340 sider
...live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 sider
...When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St David's ruined...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 sider
...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then pp — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile, And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! P. 33. But the imagery and language in the following pages are awful and tenifick in the extreme,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1807 - 382 sider
...heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the whileThen view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. . Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 310 sider
...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 sider
...live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad- and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair : With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 sider
...When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St David's ruined...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine make there ; Little recked he of the scene so fair: With dagger's hilt... | |
 | 1838 - 884 sider
...to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St David's mined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." The second couplet has no business there — and forcibly brings before us an image which should have been... | |
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