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... Blackwood's Magazine - Página 6211850Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 páginas
...her tried . London. Ch-nl*-; Tilt J-leit Street , 1W5 THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that,...lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes... | |
| 1835 - 494 páginas
...Maxwell, CB :> Principally from " The United Service Journal." No. XXVII. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Esg. " Call it not vain ! they do not err Who say that when a poet dies Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." " No man was ever more... | |
| 1837 - 682 páginas
...the spot.' Do you recollect Scott's own lines in the fifth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel 2 'Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say that...Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed hard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of halm distil; Through... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1837 - 644 páginas
...the spot.' Do you recollect Scott's own lines in the fifth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel ? ' Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say that when...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say tall clifTand cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 páginas
...necessary a part of wisdom to know what to believe, as what to reject. MRS. MONTAGU. CALL it not rain :—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. WALTER SCOTT. TRUE Dignity is his whose tranquil mind Virtue has rais'd above the things below ; Who,... | |
| 1837 - 648 páginas
...the fifth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel 1 ' Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say thai when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say tall clirTand cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 páginas
...Smiled then, well pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. I. CALL it Bot Tain: — they do not err, Who say, that, when the Poet dies,...his obsequies; Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, Per the departed bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That Sowers in tears of balm... | |
| 1839 - 556 páginas
...and beloved land, mourned the loss of their minstrels faithful song. In his own touching strains, " Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say, that...lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in chrystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil, Through his lov'd groves that breezes... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 páginas
...To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. NATURE MOURNING FOR POETS. Call it not vain — they do not err Who say, that...lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves the breezes sigh,... | |
| Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 páginas
...stranger coincidence remains, for both died upon the same day. If it be indeed true then, that, — " they do not err Who say that when the Poet dies Mute...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies," — how shall we be able to estimate the grief which pervaded Spain and England, on the 12th of April,... | |
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