| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1907 - 278 sider
...no more; His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains; Quenched is his lamp nf varied lore That loved the light of song to pour;...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains." Or, as Hogg has finely said of him: — "Sweet rung the harp to Logan's hand ; Then Leyden came from... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 sider
...billows' roll. Lochbuie's fierce and warlike Lord Their signal saw, and grasp'd his sword, 442 IV.] 443 the grace of Roderick Dhu. ' Forbear thy suit : the...King of kings Alone can stay life's parting wings : ! Ever the breeze blows merrily, Butthegalley ploughs no more the sea. Lest, rounding wild Cantyre,... | |
| Florence Anne MacCunn - 1909 - 488 sider
...his poems, ' The Lord of the Isles.' They occur in the passage descriptive of the Hebrides : — " Scenes sung by him who sings no more ! His bright...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains ! " JOSEPH RITSON. IT was Walter Scott's fate, all through life, to excite affection in unexpected... | |
| Elma Story - 1909 - 480 sider
...friend : ' His bright and brief career is o'er And mute his tuneful strains ; SIR EB LYTTON Quenched is his lamp of varied lore That loved the light of...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains.' 'It was on 6th January, 1853, that MoncriefF brought forward his motion in the Diagnostic, proposing... | |
| 1910 - 852 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...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... | |
| University of Edinburgh. Students' Representative Council - 1914 - 254 sider
...for the expedition against Java; and at Molenvliet, near Batavia, on the 28th August, "Quenched was his lamp of varied lore That loved the light of song to pour." In the pages of Lockhart, Leyden is a livelyand entertaining figure. Scott met him for the first time... | |
| Walter Scott - 1917 - 1000 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,... | |
| Theodore Douglas Dunn - 1921 - 166 sider
...death in The Lord of ihe Isles. Scarba's Isle, whose tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreckan's roar, And lonely Colonsay: Scenes sung by him who...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains. A third writer, Henry Derozio, whose birth and education in Calcutta sealed his connection with the... | |
| 1921 - 894 sider
...him who sings no more; His bright end brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains; Quenched in his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song...distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains." Of course no sketch of Edinburgh Society at the beginning of the nineteenth century would be complete... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 1122 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 !x XII Ever the breeze blows merrily, But the galley ploughs no more the sea. Lest, rounding wild Cantyre,... | |
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