Then it was truth," — he said — "I knew That the dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone,... The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Side 92af Walter Scott - 1831 - 490 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 sider
...dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying...on earth he sunk, Supported by the trembling Monk. 32 With fruitless labour, Clara bound, And strove to staunch, the gushing wound : The Monk, with unavailing... | |
| Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 sider
...The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying groan,1 And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe...With fruitless labour, Clara bound, And strove to stanch the gushing wound : The Monk, with unavailing cares, Exhausted all the Church's prayers. Ever,... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 sider
...fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day! For wasting life, and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone,...on earth he sunk, Supported by the trembling monk. With fruitless labour Clara bound, And strove to stanch the gushing wound: 30* r The monk, with unavailing... | |
| James White - 1858 - 320 sider
...dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying...on earth he sunk, Supported by the trembling Monk. With fruitless labour, Clara bound, And strove to stanch the gushing wound : The Monk, with unavailing... | |
| Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 sider
...sacrilege, ami living groan, CANTO TI. CASTO VI Might bribe him for delay. It may not be ! — tliis dizzy trance — Curse on yon base marauder's lance,...Supported by the trembling Monk. XXXII. With fruitless labor, Clara bound And strove to stanch the gushing wound : The Monk, with unavailing cares, Exhausted... | |
| G. M. Sterne - 1859 - 302 sider
...met his sight ; Such signs may learned clerks explain, They pass the wit of simple swain." Scott. " It may not be ! this dizzy trance. Curse on yon base...failing brand, A sinful heart makes feeble hand." Scott. IT was during the persecution of the early covenanters that the chief of Glencairn had set his... | |
| Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 sider
...XXXL I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a dayj For wasting fire and dying groan, And priests slain...altar stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not be 1— this dizzy trance — • Curse on yon base marauder's lance, And doubly cursed my failing brand!... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 704 sider
...dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying...on earth he sunk, Supported by the trembling Monk. With fruitless labour, Clara bound, And strove to stanch, the gushing wound : The Monk, with unavailing... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 sider
...dark presage must be true. I would the fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying...on earth he sunk, Supported by the trembling monk. With fruitless labour Clara bound, And strove to staunch the gushing wound : The monk, with unavailing... | |
| Playtime - 1863 - 436 sider
...dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying...on earth he sunk, Supported by the trembling monk. With fruitless labour, Clara bound, And strove to stanch the gushing wound : The Monk, with unavailing... | |
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