 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1912 - 322 sider
...man whom Sir Walter Scott has thus immortalised in "The Lord of the Isles" will never be forgotten. " His bright and brief career is o'er And mute his tuneful...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains." CANTO IV. ST. IL All the servants and retainers at Abbotsford served their much Ioved master so devotedly... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1911 - 324 sider
...by him who sings no more His brief and bright career ie o'er And mute his tuneful strains. Quenched is his lamp of varied lore That loved the light of song to pour; A distent and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains. Dr Levden, if for nothing else, deserves to be... | |
 | Benjamin Lewis Rice - 1897 - 900 sider
...Lard 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. Other sources of information exist,1 for a good deal has been written in connection with Mysore during... | |
 | Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1897 - 460 sider
...him who sings no more ! His brief and bright career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quenched is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has Leyrlen'a cold remains ! " After the battle of Cornelia, General Janssens retired to Samarang, the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1897 - 592 sider
...career (at Batavia, in 1811, at the age of thirty-six), have been sung by Scott : — Quenched is that lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has Leydeu's cold remains : — the Rev. Charles Wolfe (b. 1791, d. 1823), an Irishman, the writer of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1899 - 370 sider
...him who sings no more, 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. " Leyden was still alive when Marmion was written, but he had left Scotland for India. 144. many-languaged... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 420 sider
...before completing his thirty-sixth year. ' Scenes sung by him who sings no more 1 His brief and bright career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench'd...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains ! " — Lord of the Isles, Canto iv. See a notice of his life in the Author's Miscellaneous Prose Works.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 sider
...before completing his thirty-sixth year. 1 Scenes sung by him who sings no more 1 His brief and bright career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench'd...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains 1 " — Lord of the Isles, Canto IB. See a notice of his life in the Author's Miscellaneous Prose Works.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 404 sider
...Corrievreken's roar, And lonely Colonsay ; — Scenes sung by him who sings no more ! His bright and brief2 career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench'd...varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; 1We were now treadiug that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 760 sider
...Corrieyreken's roar, And lonely Colonsay ; — Scenes sung by him who sings no more I His bright and brief2 career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench'd...varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; 1 We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions,... | |
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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... 
