 | 1910
...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...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains! The "Border Minstrelsy" had a great and Immediate success when It was published In 1802-3, and the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1917 - 981 sider
...signal saw, and grasp'd his sword, And verdant Hay call'd her host, And the clans of Jura's rugged Lord Ronald's call obey, And Scarba's isle, whose...distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! Ever the breeze blows merrily, Butthe galley ploughs no more the sea. Lest, rounding wild Cantyre,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923
...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 !x XII Ever the breeze blows merrily, But the galley ploughs no more the sea. Lest, rounding wild Cantyre,... | |
 | 1857
...him who sings no more, His bright and brief career is o'er And mute his tuneful Rtrain.«, Quenched is his lamp of varied lore That loved the light of...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains." What Sir W. Jones accomplished for Philology and Antiquities in Calcutta by the establishment of the... | |
 | 1821
...him who sings no more, His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains. (Juench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains ! Lord of Ike Jilts. None but a poet may chaunt a poet's requiem. We only allude to the miscellaneous... | |
 | ...by him who sings no more ! His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; 295 Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the...of song to pour; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEVDEN'S cold remains ! XII. Ever the breeze blows merrily, 300 But the galley ploughs no more the... | |
 | 1815
...magnitude : but it would be vain to attempt a specification of all these -violences of expression. Quench'd Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the...of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has Leydcn's cold remains !' ; — we must proceed rapidly with our voyagers. ' Ever the breeze blows merrily,... | |
 | 1910
...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 I,eyden's cold remains! The "Border Minstrelsy" had a great and immediate success when it was published... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1879
...delightful of his miscellaneous works. Everybody knows the lines in ' The Lord of the Isles ' : " Qiiench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour : A distant arid a deadly shore Has Leyden'a cold remains." Dr. Walcot, better known as Peter Pindar, very soon... | |
 | A. Hamilton Thompson - 2019 - 236 sider
...brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains; 55 Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That lov'd the light of song to pour; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! V. THE DEATH OF ARGENTINE Again he fac'd the battle-field, — Wildly they fly, are slain, or yield.... | |
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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... 
