 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1834 - 286 pages
...teach thee to live and die: Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile; And home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!" We passed sufficiently near to Abbotsford, to satisfy, in a degree at least, our curiosity in reference... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...o'er the dead man's grave, Then go, — hut go alone the while — Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! VENICE. THERE is a glorious city in the sea ; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pages
...And the scrolls that teach thce to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the howlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. * * • * By a steel-clench... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1835 - 578 pages
...that teach theeto live and die: Then go— but go alone the whileThen view Saint David's ruined pile; And home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!" We passed sufficiently near to Abbotsford, to satisfy, in a degree al least, our curiosity in reference... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 pages
...of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach tbee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" The... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pages
...of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...— but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." The second couplet... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thec to live and die ; When distant Tweed ia heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." The second couplet... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...of ebon and ivory: When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and (fie-j When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the whileThen view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ;-' When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ;' And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt did Deloraine... | |
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When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is... 
