| Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...and remorse, He sorrowed o'er the expiring horse. ' I little thought, when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That highland eagle e'er...should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed, Wo worth the chase, wo worth the day i That costs thy life, my gallant gray !' • X. Then through... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...limbs to rise no more. Then touch'd with pity and remorse, He sorrow'd o'er the expiring hors*: « I little thought, when first thy rein I slack'd upon...Seine, That Highland eagle e'er should feed On thy ileet limbs, my matchless stppd; Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...pity and remorse, He sorrowed o'er the expiring horse. 'I little thought when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That highland eagle e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my gallant steed! Wo worth the chase, wo worth the day, That cost thy life, my gallant grey !' " ELLEN... | |
| Provincial Scotsman - 1829 - 300 pages
...racter of Fitz James, in the " Lady of the Lake,*' arose from this couplet to his dying horse:— " I little thought, when first thy rein I slack'd upon...banks of Seine, That highland eagle e'er should feed Upon thy limb*, my matchless steed. Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day a ^ That costs thy life,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...stiff limbs to rise no more. Then touch'd with pity and remorse, He sorrow' d o'er the expiring horse - I little thought, when first thy rein I slack'd upon...e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless sited ; Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray ! » — X. Then... | |
| 1869 - 514 pages
...hilly realize the pity and remorse, the deep-felt sorrow of the gallant sportsman, when he exclaims : " I little thought, when first thy rein I slack'd upon...should feed On thy fleet limbs — my matchless steed 1 Woe worth the chase, who worth the day, That costs thy life — my gallant grey 1" The description,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 394 pages
...and remorse, He sorrowed o'er the expiring horse. " I little thought, when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That highland eagle e'er...woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray!" — X. Then through the dell his horn resounds, From vain pursuit to call the hounds. Back limped,... | |
| 1869 - 514 pages
...sorrow of the gallant sportsman, when he exclaims : " I little thought, when first thy rein I slaek'd upon the banks of Seine, That Highland eagle e'er...limbs — my matchless steed ! Woe worth the chase, who worth the day, That costs thy life — my gallant grey !" The description, too, of Ellen's rustic... | |
| William Beattie - 1838 - 336 pages
...breaks forth into the following apostrophe : — " I little thought, when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That Highland eagle e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed 1 Woe worth the chase — woe worth the day That costs thy life, my gallant grey 1" 6V,: the " Local... | |
| John William Carleton - 1869 - 516 pages
...fully realize the pity and remorse, the deep-felt sorrow of the gallant sportsman, when he exclaims : " I little thought, when first thy rein I slack'd upon...limbs — my matchless steed ! Woe worth the chase, who worth the day, That costs thy life — my gallant grey 1" The description, too, of Ellen's rustic... | |
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