 | 1892 - Страниц: 470
...affairs, we may compare the well-known passage (Scott's Lay of tin 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1893 - Страниц: 186
...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. n. Not that, in sooth, o'er... | |
 | 1893 - Страниц: 684
...unknown future, what wonder if those solemn lines of a brother bard should have crossed his mind : Call it not vain. They do not err Who say that when...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groans reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. WILLIAM CONNOR... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1894 - Страниц: 906
...unknown future, what wonder if those solemn lines of a brother bard should have crossed his mind : Call it not vain. They do not err Who say that when...loved groves that breezes sigh. And oaks in deeper groans reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To in iirni in- dirges round his grave. — Gentleman's... | |
 | 1894 - Страниц: 360
...dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted. THE POET. From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel." SCOTT. CALL it not vain ; they do not err, Who say that when...; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - Страниц: 432
...earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! WORDSWORTH : Personal Talh, iv. Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that...departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal lill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - Страниц: 358
...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."' Swinburne says of Blake, and I feel entirely with him, though in my case the application would have... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - Страниц: 208
...short-lived bla/e. 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...Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his olisequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan; That mountains... | |
 | Alexander Francis Chamberlain - 1895 - Страниц: 482
...themselves," but are become " a portion of that around them." In the beautiful words of Scott : — " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that,...in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves the breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 1224
...painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. k. POPE— The Dunciad. Bk. IL 93. II. I. SCOTT — The Lay of the Lout Minstrel. Canto V. St. 1. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until... | |
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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... 
