 Scarba's isle, whose tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreken's roar, And lonely Colonsay ; — Scenes sung by him who sings no more ! ° His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains; Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved...  The Lord of the Isles: A Poem - Side 143af Walter Scott - 1815 - 443 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 sider
...sung by him who sings no more ! His brief and bright career is o'er. And mute his tuneful slrains ; Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour: A distant und a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains!" Lord of the Isles, Canto IV. vol. v. post. See a notice... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1849 - 408 sider
...makes the past, the distant, or th future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignit; No time for matin or for mass. And the sounds of the...light of song to pour A distant and a deadly shore c Has LEYDEN'S cold remains!1 of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 sider
...him who sings no more, His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quenched X O ) nY A k f ; o s _ - ü G X ^.O 7p f "9x [ M ) The allusion here is to a ballad by Leyden, entitled The Mermaid, the scene of which is laid at Corrievreckin,... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 sider
...pathetically laments — " His bright and brief career was o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quenched was his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour — A distant and a dismal shore Has Leyden's cold remains ! " To this first section of our subject are also referable... | |
 | Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 326 sider
...the Lord of the Isles — " His bright and brief career is o'er And mute his tuneful strains Quenched is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains !" It is not to be forgotten that " Earl Walter" is more than poet or advocate ; is quartermaster of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 sider
...religion. To abstract the mind from all leo] emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavored, and SO His bright and brief* career is o'er, And mute his...of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEIDEN'S cold remains 1 XII. Ever the breeze blows merrily, But the galley ploughs no more the sea.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 sider
...sung by him who sings no more ! His tirief and bright carcer is o'er, And mutc his tuneful straius ; Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the...light of song to pour . A distant and a deadly shore 1'ns LEY UEN'S cold remaina !" Lord ofthe Ilia, Canto IV. See a notice of his life in the Author's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 sider
...endeavored, and His bright and brief* career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench'd is hi» lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has LKYDEX'S cold remains I XIL Ever the breeze blows merrily. But the galley ploughs no more the sea.... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1856 - 394 sider
...in tribute to his memory : — " His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strain ; Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains." * Thomas Campbell was one of Leyden's early literary friends ; they had quarrelled, but continued to... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 448 sider
...Still rings to Corrievreken's roar, And lonely Colonsay ; — Scenes sung by him who sings no more IG His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his...distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! 12 Ever the breeze blows merrily, But the galley ploughs no more the sea. Lest, rounding wild Cantire,... | |
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