 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...audience gained: but, when he reached the perptoxity room of state, where she, with all her ladies, sat, perchance he wished his boon denied ; for, when to...tune his harp he tried, his trembling hand had lost Pity the ease whichmarks security to please; and scenes, long past, of joy and pain, came wildeiing... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - English poetry - 1880 - 326 pages
...minstrel audience gained. But when he reached the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied : For, when to...brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! The pitymg duchess praised its chime, And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's according... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1880 - 406 pages
...and a celebrated warrior. Perchance he wish'd his boon denied : For, when to tune his harp he rried, His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please; And scenes, long post, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brain- — He tried to tune his harp in vain !... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 pages
...Minstrel audience gained. But, when he reach'd the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied ; For, when to tune his harp he tried, ' Anon, soon, by-and-by, shortly. 1 Earl Francis, the Duchess's late father. * Walter, Earl of Buccleuch,... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...minstrel audience gained ; But, when he reached the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied : For, when to...— He tried to tune his harp in vain. The pitying Uuchess praised its chime, And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's according glee... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 pages
...gain'd. But, when he reach'd the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wish'd his boon denied : For, when to tune his harp he tried,...his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain Í The pitying Duchess praised its chime, And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 pages
...Minstrel audience gained. But, when he reached the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied : For, when to...scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain. The pitying Duchess praised its chime, And... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 362 pages
...reach'd the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wish'd his boon danied : For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling...please ; And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wilderiug o'er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! The pitying Duchess praised its... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 pages
...was poured out. One cannot but feel now and again that, as Sir Walter said of his aged harper, — His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security...of joy and pain Came wildering o'er his aged brain. Mr. Arnold places almost all the really first-rate work of "Wordsworth in the decade between the years... | |
 | P R Jackson - 1882 - 184 pages
...Minstrel audience * gained. But, when he reached the room of state, Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied ; For, when to tune his harp he tried, 65 His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security * to please ; And scenes, long past,... | |
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Where she with all her ladies sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied : For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please... 
