 | Elizabeth Holmes - 1832 - 300 pages
...gathered together all mute nature's sympathies to bewail him. I remembered Sir W. Scott's lines, " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." I need not write down that passage—who does not know it, and delight in it ? But that singular stone,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1832 - 312 pages
...whole foundations to the centre nod, And Nature tremble to the throne of God. "f So likewise Sir Walter Scott : " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say that, when the poet dies, Mute Nature is his worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." Hence is derived the phrase natural philosophy, as... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 pages
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say. tall clifTand cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan : That mountains weep in crystal rills That flowers... | |
 | 1834 - 896 pages
..."•' ! ... i1 i P , ....> linn.. ..... V.-.I. « The Poetical Works »f ST Coleridge. 3 Vol». *' Call it not vain ! they do not err, Who say that when a poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ! " Mute nature mourns... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 pages
...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,...in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur... | |
 | 1835 - 494 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
