From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred... Letters from the Levant - Page 350by John Galt - 1813Full view - About this book
| Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 334 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, 'and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of... | |
| Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 pages
...! If such there breathe, go, mark him well ; For him no Minstrel raptures swell ; x High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish...Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Cespite those titles, power, anil pelf, he wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown. And,...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence lie sprung, Unwept, unhonourcd, and unsung. After introducing the ballads of three different bards,... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish...Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown. And, doubly dying, shall go down To the... | |
| 1806 - 448 pages
...strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish...Despite those titles, power, and pelf., The wretch, concentered all nj self, f . 3 D—YOU xxII. 1 .ivii.p, ihail forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying,... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him well i For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, ;md pelt> The wretch, concentered Л1 in self, Living, shall forfeit fíúr renown, And, doubly dying;... | |
| 1806 - 310 pages
...strand ! Tf such there breathe, go mark him well j For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles,, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, pov/er and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly... | |
| Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...strand ! If such there breathe, go mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name. Boundless his wealth as wish...Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concenter'd all in self, Living shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying shall go down To the vile... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...minstrel raptures swell, High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can frame j Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch...doubly dying shall go down To the vile dust, from which he sprung^ Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. In this poem there are many beautiful strokes in the... | |
| Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...which stood the remains of the school in which he had recei- _'d the early part of his education. - 128 O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy woodLand of the mountain and the flood ; Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial... | |
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