 Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time; And feelings, roused in life's first day, Glow in the line and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags,...  The Williams Quarterly - Page 581857Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...that charmed me yet a child, Kude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of earlier time ; And feelings, roused in life's first day. Glow...mountain tower. Which charmed my fancy's wakening houri Though no broad river swept along, To claim, perchance, heroic song ; Though sighed no groves... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...trie measure wild Of tales that charm'd me yet a child. Rude though they be, still with the chirn< Return the thoughts of early time ; And feelings,...line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that niouuiau tower Which charm'd my fancy's vrakeninj hour. Though no broad river swept along, To claim,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...thoughts of early time ; And feelings, rousod In life's flrst day, Glow in the line, and prompt tUc lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour. Though no broad river swept along. To claim, perchance, heroic song; Though sighed no groves... | |
 | Scottish border - 1869 - 624 pages
...of the tale is founded upon a well-known Irish tradition.2 This ancient fortress and its vicinity ' Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour.' . Scot* -Mag,, March, 1809. st Atheism," cot* -ag,, ar 3 The following passage, in " Dr. Henry... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...Bennevis gray, and Garry's lake. III.] And feelings, roused in life's first day, 130 Glow in the Hne, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour. Though no broad river swept along, iso To claim, perchance, heroic song ; Thongh sighed no groves... | |
 | William Almack - 1871 - 76 pages
...stetit arce, vigil. IV. THUS while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts...mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour, Though no broad river flowed along, To claim, perchance, heroic song : Though sighed no groves... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 266 pages
...lake. Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Elide though they bo, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early...mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour : Though no broad river swept along To claim perchance heroic song; Though sighed no groves in... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 534 pages
...charmingly told his recollections of this childhood haunt, and the influence it had upon him, — " Return the thoughts of early time ; And feelings roused in life's first day," — . . . Then rise those crags that mountain tower, Which chann'd my fancy's waking hour. Then " was... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 540 pages
...charmingly told his recollections of this childhood haunt, and the influence it had upon him,— " Return the thoughts of early time ; And feelings roused in life's first day,'1 — . . Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charm'd my fancy's waking hour. Then... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...the measure wila Of tales that charm'd me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chin™ Return the thoughts of early time ; And feelings,...lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower Which charm'd my fancy's wakening hour. Though no broad river swept along, To claim, perchance, heroic song... | |
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