TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak... Southern Quarterly Review - Page 255edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
| 1810 - 538 pages
...our marvelling boy-hood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are diey blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak...their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Lite stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight ! Time rolls his ceaseless... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...knee, And told our marvelling boy-hood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How...their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight ! Time rolls his ceaseless... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...store, Of their strange ventures happ'd hy land or sea, How they are hlotted from the things that he ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight ! Time rolls his ceaseless... | |
| 1832 - 812 pages
...And told our marvelling childhood legend's store Of their strange 'ventures, happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak aiid withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks ! The tide... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...And told our marvelling boy-hood legends store, . Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or 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 wrecks, the tide returning... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...knee. And told our marvelling boy-hood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or 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 wrecks, the tide returning... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...our marvelling boy-hood 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...their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless... | |
| William George Moss - 1824 - 304 pages
...And told our marvelling childhood legends store, Of their strange ventures, happ'd by sea or land, How are they blotted from the things that be. How...of their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks : — the tide returning hoarse To snatch them from our sight : — Time rolls... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...our marvelling 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...their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight ! Time rolls his ceaseless... | |
| John S. Piercy - 1828 - 286 pages
...And told our marvelling' boyhood legend's store, Of their strange 'ventures hanp'd by land or sea^ How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and wUher'd in their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning... | |
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