 | William John Clarke Miller - 1899 - 248 sider
...passage, and has been reiterated by many poets since, especially by Scott, in the following lines : — " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say that when...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved grove that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1899 - 220 sider
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : AVho say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal... | |
 | Iowa. State Department of Health - 1899 - 606 sider
...a rising vote: IN MEM OKI AM. PROF. WILMOT H. DICKINSON, AM, MD Born 1828. Died Ootober 26, 1898. " Call it not vain; they do not err Who say that when the scholar dies, Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." In common with his... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 622 sider
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well pleased, the aged man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that...that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply, 10 And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II Not that, in sooth, o'er... | |
 | 1917 - 714 sider
...of joy or grief, we fall into this subjectivism and falsify the facts. To take a glaring example : Call it not vain : they do not err. Who say, that...cliff and cavern lone For the departed Bard make moan. Coleridge's lines are only true if they are understood, as they may be understood, to mean that unless... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 618 sider
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well pleased, the aged man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that...his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone !-W the departed bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal rill; Th:u flowers in tears of balm... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 sider
...but his nerves were all unstrung ; and he returned to Abbotsford to die, in 1832, at the age of6i. Call it not vain : they do not err, Who say, that...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. And Scott was mourned indeed ; not in Scotland only ; for so far, even then, had his fame travelled,... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1900 - 286 sider
...that when the Poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshiper, ^ And celebrates his obsequies ; Who says, tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal riii ; That flowers in tears of balm distill ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1900 - 1188 sider
...rising vote: IN MBMORIAM. PROF. WILMOT H. DICKINSON, A'. M., MD Born 1828. Died October 26, 1898. " Call it not vain; they do not err Who say that when the scholar dies, Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." In common with his... | |
 | Willmott Willmott-Dixon - 1901 - 402 sider
...fancy, as the poetangler himself would have loved to do, that the ripples of Tweed sang his requiem. Call it not vain ; — they do not err Who say that...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies. Henry Astbury Leveson "The Old Shekarry" THIRTY years ago there was no writer on sport in its adventurous... | |
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CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers... 
