| William Jerdan - 1852 - 348 pages
...his memory. CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD. Time rolls her ceaseless course ! The race of yore That dunccil our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store Of their strange ventures happed by land or sea ; How are they blotted from the things that be ! — SCOTT. There is a place... | |
| 1852 - 216 pages
...refinement. CHAPTEE II. MODERN PERIOD, AD 1066, TO PRESENT TIME. " Time rolls hia ceaseless coarse. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legend's store, Of their strange ventures happed by land and sea, How are they blotted from the things... | |
| Martha Featon Hunter - 1852 - 454 pages
...his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced in infancy upon our knee, Anil told our marveling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How they are blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak, and withered of their force, Wait, on... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...the shore withdrew. CAMTO THiRD CANTO THIRD. i. 1 ME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore,1 Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our...sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and wither'd of their foree, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded... | |
| Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...withdrew. <£l)e Cabii of tljc £akc. CANTO THIRD. I. TIME rolla his ceaseless course. The race of yore,1 Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our...sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and wither'd of their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded... | |
| George King Matthews - 1854 - 264 pages
...CHAPTER XIV. MY LAST PILGRIMAGE ROUND ABBOTSFORD . . 209 ABBOTSFORD AND SIR WALTER SCOTT. CHAPTER I. " Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore,...store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or se.i, How are they blotted from the things that be ! " LADY of THE LAKE. MEMORY hallows the resting-places... | |
| Matthew Henry Barker - 1854 - 380 pages
...parboiled amongst the hot water, or only brought to a simmer by steam, time must develope, but I fear " the race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And tola our boyhood legends store Of their strange 'ventures happ'd by land or sea," are gone, never to... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...The Minstrel hard the far halloo, And joyful from the shore withdrew. CANTO THIRD. THE GATHERING. L TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore,...sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and wither'd of their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 pages
...2il)e Ccilig of % Cake. CAXTO THIItn. »Tiic (fi.itlicrfiifl. I. TIME rolls his ceaseless course. Tlie race of yore,* Who danced our infancy upon their knee,...land or sea, How are they blotted from the things Hint be ! How few, all weak and wither'd of their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, lake stranded... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1855 - 686 pages
...to urge him to make the same peace for himself and country ! AGED PERSONS. " The hands of yore That danced our infancy upon their knee And told our marvelling...legends' store, Of their strange ventures, happ'd by land and sea, — How they are blotted from the things that be !" THERE is something grateful, and perhaps... | |
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