 Have we not seen, at Pleasure's lordly call, The smiling, long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western...  Scott's Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field - Pagina 247door Walter Scott - 1899 - 335 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 540 pagina’s
...village fall 1 Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay' d, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse...swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound 1 E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pagina’s
...village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid. Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse...swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound ? E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways,... | |
 | John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young - 1864 - 758 pagina’s
...the present century that Grist-mills were erected in Western New York. Through all the vast region " Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound," the Mohawk, the Oneida, and the Seneca, pounded his maize and ate his unbolted meal in undisturbed... | |
 | James Alexander Browne - 1865 - 368 pagina’s
...in 1848, and died at Eltham, March 28, 1851. t The present Major-General Blachley. 183 CHAPTER XI. ' To traverse climes beyond the western main, Where...around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound." GOLDSMITH. , THE WAR WITH AMERICA, 1812 — 1814. THE CAMPAIGNS IN CANADA — DETROIT — QUEENSTOWN... | |
 | Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst - 1905 - 264 pagina’s
...the evils incidental to rural decay, and resulting from their persuasiveness to English villagers 7" To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where...around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound." Perhaps some of the best blood in England thus left her for ever, for 8 Child thought that the most... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 pagina’s
...village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; 410 Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound ? E'en now,... | |
 | Patrick Maxwell - 1906 - 304 pagina’s
...the word ' Niagara,' which apparently was once pronounced ' Niagara,' as in Goldsmith's Traveller : "Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound." In pronunciation, of course, custom, even if wrong, is king— communis error facit jus; custom, even... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1906 - 1198 pagina’s
...those that toil. Line 372. Line 3S6. Line 400. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; M'here wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound. Vain, very... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pagina’s
...long-frequented village fall? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main, 410 Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound? Even now,... | |
 | 1910 - 542 pagina’s
...village fall? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse...spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound? Even now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through... | |
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