 Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time; And feelings, roused in life's first day, Glow in the line and prompt the lay.  Leaves from the Backwoods - Page 55by Mary Ann Walker - 1861 - 174 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...the gathering blast." I cannot refrain from giving one more specimen, taken from the Third Epistle. " Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed...chime Return the thoughts of early time; And feelings rous'd in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...dark Lochaber's boundless range, I Nor for fair Devon's meads forsake Bennevis grey and Garry's lake. Thus, while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed...life's first day, Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour : Though no broad... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1808 - 918 pages
...the gathering blast." I cannot refrain from giving one more specimen, taken from the Third Epistle. " Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with (he chime Return the thoughts of early time; And feelings rous'd in life's first day Glow in the line,... | |
 | Robert Orde Fenwick - 1809 - 146 pages
...Poem. IN TWO CANTOS. re ' a Cale OF DUNSE. BY RO FENWICK, ESQ. Thus, while I ape the measure wild a^ Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though...with the chime Return the thoughts of early time-— SCOTT. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY ALSX. JA Will E 8f CO. FOR ALEX. LAWRIE, EDINBURGH; AND J. RIDGWAY, LONDON.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 532 pages
...boundless range, Nor for fair Devon's meads forsake Bennevis grey and Garry's lake. Thus, while I ape die measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child,...life's first day, Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour. Though no broad... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...dark Lochaber's boundless range, Nor for fair Devon's meads forsake Bennevis grey and Garry's lake. Thus, while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed...life's first day, Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour. Though no broad... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 pages
...more specimen, taken from the Third Epistle. " Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charm'd me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the...chime Return the thoughts of early time : And feelings rous'd in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1813 - 330 pages
...specimerij taken fr.om the Third Epistle. " Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charm'd me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the...chime Return the thoughts of early time : And feelings rous'd in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1813 - 332 pages
...child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time : And feelings rous*d in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charm'd my fancy's wakening hour : .Though no broad... | |
 | Walter Scott (sir).) - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1814 - 592 pages
...recorded the character of the scenery in one of the preliminary epistles to the poem called Mannion. Thus, while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rnde though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time; And feelings, roused in... | |
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