| Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 pages
...Or we think of Young Norval, in Douglas, attracted to the hermit's cell by the hermit's stories, " for he had been a soldier in his youth, and fought in famous battles." Recurring to real life, we think of elderly Prince Charles Edward, just forty years after the Forty-five,... | |
| John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...melancholy man! Who was the wonder of our wandering swains : Water his drink, his food the shepherd's alms. I went to see him, and my heart was touch'd...peers Of Europe, by the bold Godfredo led, Against the usurping Infidel displayed The blessed cross, and won the Holy Land. Pleased with my admiration,... | |
| John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...to himself, Did they report him ; the cold earth his bed, Water his drink, his food the shepherd's alms. I went to see him, and my heart was touch'd...peers Of Europe, by the bold Godfredo led, Against the usurping Infidel displayed The blessed cross, and won the Holy Land. Pleased with my admiration,... | |
| W. and R. Chambers (ltd.) - 1878 - 174 pages
...drink, his food the shepherds' alms. I went to see him, and my heart was touched With reverence and with pity. Mild he spake, And, entering on discourse, such...battles, when the peers Of Europe, by the bold Godfredo 2 led, Against the usurping infidel displayed The blessed cross, and won the Holy Land. HOW DOUGLAS... | |
| Marmaduke Edmonstone Browne - English drama - 1878 - 360 pages
...and Scotland, and the period of the story (as we gather from an incidental allusion to one who — " Had been a soldier in his youth, And fought in famous battles, when the peers Of Europe, by the bold God/redo led," ^ c.) is about the middle of the 12th century. In his castle, surrounded with woods,... | |
| Charles John Plumptre - Elocution - 1881 - 524 pages
...accidents converting them to good." 7. I went to see him, and my heart was touch'd With reverence and with pity. Mild he spake, And entering on discourse, such...peers Of Europe, by the bold Godfredo led, Against the usurping infidel, display'd The blessed cross, and won the holy land. Pleas'd with my admiration,... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...193 I went to see him, and my heart was touched With reverence and with pity. Mild he spake ; Ami, entering on discourse, such stories told, As made me oft revisit his sad cell ; For lie Lad heen a soldier in his youth, And fought in fmuotis battles, when the peers Of Europe, by the... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...WILLIAM MASON.— MISS JANE ELLIOT. I \veut to see him, and my heart was touched With reverence and with h g gKj fanions battles, when the peers Of Europe, Ъу tho old Godfredo led Against the usurping infidel,... | |
| William Moffatt (publisher) - 1883 - 182 pages
...his food the shepherd's alma. I went to see him, and my heart was touched With reverence 7 and with pity. Mild he spake And, entering on discourse, such...sad cell. For he had been a soldier in his youth, 1 Glad, from having done a Mnd act. 2 From a speech ol Norval's in the play of "Douglas," 3 Remote,... | |
| English drama - 1886 - 344 pages
...ho spako, And, ent'rinff on discourse, euch stones told As made me oft revisit bin sad cell. For be had been a soldier in his youth ; And fought in famous battles, wlien lira poors Of Europe, by ttie bold Gotlfredo ted, Aga;n»t th' usurping luildct dIBp'ay*d The... | |
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