 FILL the bright goblet, spread the festive board ! Summon the gay, the noble, and the fair ! Through the loud hall, in joyous concert pour'd, Let mirth and music sound the dirge of Care ! But ask thou not if Happiness be there, If the loud laugh disguise...  The Deeds of Beowulf - Page 1251892 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1850 - 358 pages
...SECOND. L FILL the bright goblet, spread the festive board ! Summon the gay, the noble, and the fair ! Through the loud hall, in joyous concert pour'd, Let...throe, Or if the brow the heart's true livery wear ; II. With beakers' clang, with harpers' lay, With all that olden time deem'd gay, The Island Chieftain... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1840 - 286 pages
...Summon the gay, the nohle, and the fair ! Through the loud hall in joyous concert pour'd, Let m irth and music sound the dirge of Care ! But ask thou not if happiness he there, If the loud laugh disguise convulsive throe, Or if the hrow the heart's true livery weaj... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...18. Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board, Summon the gay, the noble, and the fair ; Thro' the loud hall, in joyous concert pour'd, Let mirth and music sound the dirge of Care." SCOTT. 19. The gen'rous wine brings joy divine, And beauty charms our soul ; I, while on earth, will... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 340 pages
...IX. " Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board ! Summon the gay, the noble, and the fair|! Through the loud hall, in joyous concert pour'd, Let mirth and music sound. But ask thou not if happiness be there, Lift not the festal mask !" LORD OF THE ISLES. THE Seytons... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 340 pages
...CHAPTER IX. " Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board ! Summon the gay, the noble, and the fair! Through the loud hall, in joyous concert pour'd, Let mirth and music sound. But ask thou not if happiness be there, Lift not the festal mask !" LORD OP THE ISLES. THE Seytons... | |
 | Richard Hort - 1850 - 318 pages
...festive board, Summon the gay, the noble, and the fair; Through the loved hall in joyous concert joined, Let mirth and music sound the dirge of care ; But...the heart's true livery wear ? Lift not the festal mask—enough to know No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. The Lord of the Islet. (t... | |
 | Frank Edward Smedley - 1850 - 582 pages
...whilst I gave my arm to the old one, we proceeded to the diningroom. CHAPTER XXXIII. WOMAN'S A RIDDLE. " Let mirth and music sound the dirge of care, But ask thou not if happiness be there."— " And here she came Thi Lord of Oee liles. And sang to me the whole Of those three stanzas."—The... | |
 | 1851 - 566 pages
...THOMAS. Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board; Summon the gay, the noble, and the fair! Through the loud hall, in joyous concert pour'd, Let mirth and music sound the dirge of caret But ask thou not if happiness be there, If the loud laugh disguise convulsive throe, Or if the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...board 1 Summon the gay, tlic noble, ami the fair ! Through the loud hall in joyous concert pourVl, Let mirth and music sound the dirge of Care ! But ask thou not if Happiness 1)O there, If the loud laugh disguise convulsive throe, Or if the brow the heart's true livery wear;... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...fair ! Through the loud hall in joyous eoneert pour'd, Let mirth and musie sound the dirge of eare ! But ask thou not if happiness be there, If the loud laugh disguise eonvulsive throe, Or if the brow the heart's true living wear ; Lift not the festal mask ! — enough... | |
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