 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pagina’s
...her dear form, his mother's band, The islet far behind her lay, And she had landed in the bay. XXII. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...the Douglas to his breast His darling Ellen closely pressed, Such holy drops her tresses steep' d, Though 'twas an hero's eye that weep'd. Nor while on... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pagina’s
...her dear form, his mother's band, The islet far behind her lay, And she had landed in the bay. XXII. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...the Douglas to his breast His darling Ellen closely pressed, Such holy drops her tresses steep'd, Though 'twas an hero's eye that weep'd. Nor while on... | |
 | 1811 - 872 pagina’s
...them than heaven ; And il' there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear to limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's...daughter's head! And as the Douglas to his breast HU darling EHen closely pressed, Such holy drops her tresnes stecp'd, Though 'twas au hero's rye that... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pagina’s
...heaven; And if thercbca hniuan tear From passion's dross refin'd and clear, A tear so limpid andio meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! P. 73. In the last verse of this Ballad of Edwin and Emma, it is said, " She shiver'd, sigh'd, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1813 - 484 pagina’s
...result of an early attention to objects of sympathy is productive of beneficial consequences. ' i " Some feelings are to mortals given " With less of...and so meek, " It would not stain an angel's cheek — " "Pis that which pious fathers shed " Upon a duteous daughter's head!"* This effusion of paternal... | |
 | Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 pagina’s
...shall shine Thus replete with mirth and wine. S. WEBBE. Anacreon. 285 GLEE for Five Voices. Rx. COOKE. SOME feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. W. Scott's Lady of the Lake. GLEE for Five Voices. T. WELSH. SOFT and sweet, yon blushing rose In the... | |
 | 1855 - 782 pagina’s
...been in exactly a similar situation to those initiated by misfortune. " Some feelings arc to mortal- given. With less of earth in them than heaven ; And...limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek — Til that which pious fathers shed Vpon a duteous daughter's head I " What would you have said,... | |
 | Frances Brooke - 1818 - 250 pagina’s
...priest's, as the song says." CHAPTER XX. And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refin'd and clear— A tear so limpid and so meek, It would...angel's cheek ; 'Tis that which pious fathers shed a duteous daughter's head. LADY or THE LAKE. T HAT day which had nineteen times been passed at Ballinamoyle... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pagina’s
...eagerly while Roderick scann'd, The islet far behind her lay, And she had landed in the bay. XXII. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...Such holy drops her tresses steep'd, Though 'twas an hero's eye that weep'd. Nor while on Ellen's faultering tongue Her filial welcomes crowded hung,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pagina’s
...dear form, his mother's band, The islet far behind her lay, • And she had landed in the bay. XXII. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...Such holy drops her tresses steep'd, Though 'twas an hero's eye that weep'd. . Nor while 0n Ellen's faultering tongue Her filial welcomes crowded hung,... | |
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Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon... 
