In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, "Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... The poetical works of Walter Scott - Стр. 146авторы: sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - Страниц: 568
...swells. And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth...to say, ' Well hast thou done, frail child of clay I Thy humble powers that stately shrine Tasked high and hard — but witness mine !" Other caves on... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - Страниц: 688
...And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth...Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Tasked high and hard — but witness mine !"Merrily, merrily, goes the bark, Before the gale she bounds;... | |
| Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - Страниц: 392
...And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth...child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine" Tasked high and hard — but witness 7 mine !" SIR WALTER SCOTT. etc. — Rolled about in missionary... | |
| Rev. H. T. Howat - 1878 - Страниц: 386
...Cathedral. Sir Walter Scott's fine comparison between it and Nature's Minster at Staffa, is well known : " Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's...child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Tasked high and hard— but witness mine !' " In form that of a cross — the suggestive form preserved... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - Страниц: 280
...That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, Fogage. That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast...Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Tasked high and hard — but witness mine ! " Merrily, merrily goes the bark, Before the gale she bounds... | |
| Jabez Marrat - 1879 - Страниц: 250
...swells, And still between each awful pause From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth...child of clay! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Tasked high and hard — but witness mine.' Eigg is northward of Staffa, and is about eight miles from... | |
| James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1880 - Страниц: 538
...Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, 4 Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay! Thy humble...shrine Task'd high and hard, — but witness mine!"* " ' Which, when the ruins of thy pile Cumber the desolated isle, Firm and immutable shall stand, 'Gainst... | |
| Mountford John B. Baddeley - 1880 - Страниц: 284
...addressing the great architects of mediaeval times, " Nature's voice may seem to say, ' Well hast thon done, frail child of clay ! Thy humble powers that...shrine Task'd high and hard, — but witness mine.'" For some way beyond Furness the pervading red glare of the deep-quarried rocks on every side bears... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - Страниц: 684
...And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth...Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Tasked high and hard— but witness mine1" — • Merrily, merrily, goes the bark, Before the gale... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - Страниц: 660
...still, between each awful pause, • From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth...say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy hamble powers that stately shrine Tasked high and hard— but witness mine '" — Merrily, merrily,... | |
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