 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 144 sider
...of the Duchess. I Walter, Eat-1 of Buccleuch, grandfather of the Duchess, and a celebrated warrior. His trembling hand had lost the. ease, Which marks...scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! The pitying Duchess praised its chime,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 144 sider
...of Buccleuch. sfrandfather of the Duchess, and a celebrated warrior. THE LA V OF THE LAST MINSTREL. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks...scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! The pitying Duchess praised its chime,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 684 sider
...security to please ; And ftceuc-a, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brainHe 8$/# $/# $/# chimo, And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's according glee Was blended into harmony.... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 sider
...Spain was subject to a prince of the Bourbon family. Stvifl. (c) Certainty; assuredness; confidence. His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please. Sir If. Scoff. 2 That which secures or makes safe; protection; defence; guard; hence, specifically,... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 830 sider
...Spain was subject to a prince of the Bourbon family. Swift. (c) Certainty; assuredness; confidence. His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please. Sir I*'. Scoft. 2. That which secures or makes safe; protection; defence; guard; hence, specifically,... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 sider
...minstrel audience gained : But, when he reached the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies sat. Perchance he wished his boon denied : For, when to...aged brain ; — He tried to tune his harp, in vain. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an nncertain warbling made ; And oft he shook his hoary head.... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 264 sider
...Audience, a hearing. 62 Room of state, the great hall of the 64 Perchance, maybe. [castle. Diffidently. His trembling hand | had lost the ease | Which marks...and pain, | Came | wildering | o'er his aged brain — | xv He tried | to tune his harp | in vain. 70 The pitying Duchess | praised its chime, | \ And... | |
 | 1882 - 896 sider
...was poured out. One cannot but feel now and again that, as Sir Walter said of his aged harper, — His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security...joy and pain Came -wildering o'er his aged brain. Mr. Arnold places almost all the really first-rate work of "Wordsworth in the decade between the years... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 582 sider
...lu the m.bui>- j pr Iiuks of Monmouth, son of Charles II. He w^s beh ended for rebelliou s11^1686. Perchance he wished his boon denied: For, when to...trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to.please; And scenes, long past, of joy and Came wildering o'er his aged brain— lie tried to tune... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 630 sider
...of the Duchess. J Walter, Earl of Buccleuch, grandfather of the Duchess, and a celebrated warrior. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks...scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! The pitying Duchess praised its chime,... | |
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Where she with all her ladies sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied: For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please... 
