 | John Anderson - 1884 - 184 sider
...truthfully than any one else about this mystic entwining of mortal mood and Natures' sympathies — " Call it not vain . They do not err Who say that, when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." Well, reader, have you not felt this mystic power, and owned how hard a thing it would be to die when... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 582 sider
...thus his tale continued ran. Smiled then, well-pleased, the CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain:—they do not err. Who say, that when the Poet dies Mute Nature mourus her worshipper. And celebrates his obsequies: Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, That mountains... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 214 sider
...the short-lived blaze. 625 Smiled, then, well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not...obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, s For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 sider
...dust ; while Nature herself may be said, in his own beautiful lines, to do homage to his memory. " Call it not vain, — they do not err, who say that when the poet dies, That Nature mourns her worshipper, and celebrates his obsequies, And rivers teach the rushing wave... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 266 sider
...pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state." (176.) SET F. " They do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute nature moans her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 154 sider
...Deloraine leaves the field, he pronounces a long eulogy and lament over his fallen enemy. ffififc. i. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say,...obsequies ; Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, 5 For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 168 sider
...Deloraine leaves the field, he pronounces a long eulogy and lament over his fallen enemy. fftftfe. i. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say,...obsequies ; Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, 5 For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of... | |
 | 1889 - 934 sider
...18. Who says in verse what others say in prose. J. POPE — £pist!':s of Horace. Bk. II. Line 202. •Call it not vain; — they do not err, Who say,...mourns her worshipper. And celebrates his obsequies, e. SCOTT — The Lay of the Last 3finslrel. Canto V. St. 1. Never durst poet touch a pen to write,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 298 sider
...but he studies in the fields." No wonder then that Nature has been said to return the poet's love. " Call it not vain ; — they do not err Who say that,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." l Swinburne says of Blake, and I feel entirely with him, though in my case the application would have... | |
 | 1889 - 470 sider
...affairs, we may compare the well-known passage (Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto V.), beginning Call' it not vain — they do not err, Who say, that,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. all her gates are desolate] Compare Jer. xiv. 2, with note. her virgins are afflicted] They are mentioned... | |
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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... 
