 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 páginas
...fifth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel ? "Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say tall c'iff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ;...loved groves, that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply : And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. " Not that in sooth... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 páginas
...Smiled then, well pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. I. CALL it Bot Tain: — they do not err, Who say, that, when the Poet dies,...his obsequies; Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, Per the departed bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That Sowers in tears of balm... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 páginas
...To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. NATURE MOURNING FOR POETS. Call it not vain — they do not err Who say, that...in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves the breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges... | |
 | 1839 - 556 páginas
...and beloved land, mourned the loss of their minstrels faithful song. In his own touching strains, " Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say, that...the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in chrystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil, Through his lov'd groves that breezes sigh, And... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 páginas
...stranger coincidence remains, for both died upon the same day. If it be indeed true then, that, — " they do not err Who say that when the Poet dies Mute...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies," — how shall we be able to estimate the grief which pervaded Spain and England, on the 12th of April,... | |
 | 1840 - 368 páginas
...beside him laid ! Enough — he died the death of fame ; Enough— he died with conquering Graeme. Call it not vain : they do not err Who say, that when...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. Not that, in sooth,... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 238 páginas
...left no echo on the shore, we cannot take to ourselves the beautiful creed of the lust minstrel:— " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say, that when...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply, And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." But though it is... | |
 | English life - 1840 - 372 páginas
...passage in the lay of the Last Minstrel, which he had thus noticed with a pencil in reading it to her. " Call it not vain, they do not err Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies." &e. And then Mr. Rollestone's pencilled lines ; " And knows not he, to whom belong The deepest mysteries... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 páginas
...well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. S,as nf UK iL.ial iftinstrrl. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain :— they do not err, Who say, that...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. Not that, in sooth,... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 páginas
...— he fell mute, without even a groan , at the very base of the sacred chapel. (Bulwer'i Pompeii.) Call it not vain — they do not err, Who say, that,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. (if. Scott's Lay.) Long mn/ r he stood , and leaning on his staff, His wonder witness'd with an idiot... | |
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CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That... 
