See, through the fractured pediment revealed, Where moss inlays the rudely-sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest. Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call! Oh haste, unfold the hospitable hall!... The Pleasures of Memory: With Other Poems - Page 11by Samuel Rogers - 1802 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1853 - 560 pages
...sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest, Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest ! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh haste,...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate, Now stained with dews, with cobwehs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 516 pages
...rudely-sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest. Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest ! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh haste,...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now stained with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 468 pages
...That hall, where once, in antiquated state, The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now "stained with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof...rung ; "When round yon ample board, in due degree, We sweetened every meal with social glee. The heart's light laugh pursued the circling jest; And all was... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 458 pages
...hereditary nest. Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest ! As jars the hinge, what sulleii_echoes call ! Oh haste, unfold the hospitable hall ! That...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now stained with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round... | |
| 1856 - 560 pages
...attributes the effects to the dews. Go a little further — " As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! 0 haste, unfold the hospitable hall ! That hall where...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate." Can one unfold a hall? But granting that one may, is there any sense in which a chair of justice (whatever... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 pages
...to the dews. Go a little further — " As jars the binge, what sullen echoes call ! 0 haste, uufold the hospitable hall ! That hall where once, in antiquated...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate.'" Can one unfold a hall? But granting that one may, is there any sense in which a chair of justice (whatever... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 426 pages
...sculptur'd shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest — Long may the ruin spare its hallow'd gnest ! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh haste,...has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round you ample board, in due degree, We sweeten'd every meal with social glee. The heart's light laugh pursued... | |
| William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest I As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh baste, unfold the hospitable hall ! That hall, where once...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now stained with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1858 - 156 pages
...rudely-sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest. Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call! Oh haste,...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now stained with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round... | |
| Calcutta univ - 1859 - 254 pages
...sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest. Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest ! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh haste,..." The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now stained with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung; When round... | |
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