 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle."— Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt the infant's plain, The mother's screams, were heard...doom. Merrily, merrily goes the bark3 On a breeze and dying groan,4 And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not bo !... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 pages
...your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle."— Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt no wound ; Though in the action burst the tide, In...wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not be ! —... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...is your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle.' Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt had a second, much more violent than the first ; and...since the first shock), the earth had a shivering fit and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not be ! —... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle." — Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt no wound ; Though in the action burst the tide, In...wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not be ! —... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...is your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle.' Lord Marruion started from the ground, As light as if he felt n Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not be ! —... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...stooped his brow to lave — " Is it the hand of Clare," he said, " Or injured Constance, bathes my head? I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due...wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For, wasting fire, and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar-stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not be—... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...is your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle.' Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt 1 Then it was truth !' — he said — ' I knew That the dark presage must be true. I would the fiend,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle." — Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt no wound ; Though in the action burst the tide, In...side. " Then it was truth ! " — he said — " I kaew That the dark presage must be true. I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...ground, As light as if he felt no wound ; Though in the action burst the tide, In torrents, from Ыз wounded side. " Then it was truth," — he said —...wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For, wasting fire, and dying groan,' And priests slain on the altar stone, from the discords by which they are surrounded."... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...his brow to lave, " Is it the hand of Clare," he said, '' Or injured Constance, bathes my head ? " I would the fiend, to whom belongs " The vengeance..." Would spare me but a day ! " For, wasting fire, and dying groan, " And priests slain on the altar-stone, " Might bribe him for delay. The war, that... | |
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Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt no wound; Though in the action burst the tide, In torrents from his wounded side. " Then it was truth," he said—" I knew That the dark presage must be true. 
