 Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time; And feelings, roused in life's first day, Glow in the line and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags,...  The Williams Quarterly - Page 581857Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1808 - 1016 pages
...Erskine, of the author's youthful apprenticeship to the muses, appeared to us extremely interesting. Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour: Though no broad river swept along, To claim, perchance, heroic song; Though scarce a puny streamlet's... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...from the Third Epistle. " Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time; And feelings rous'd in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...grey and Garry's lake. Thus, while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts...mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour : Though no broad river swept along To claim perchance heroic song ; Though sighed no groves in... | |
 | Robert Orde Fenwick - 1809 - 146 pages
...BY RO FENWICK, ESQ. Thus, while I ape the measure wild a^ Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time-— SCOTT. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY ALSX. JA Will E 8f CO. FOR ALEX. LAWRIE, EDINBURGH; AND J. RIDGWAY, LONDON.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...grey and Garry's lake. Thus, while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts...mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour. Though no broad river swept along, To claim, perchance, heroic song ; Though sighed no groves... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1813 - 332 pages
...child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time : And feelings rous*d in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the...Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charm'd my fancy's wakening hour : .Though no broad river swept along To claim perchance heroic song... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1813 - 330 pages
...fr.om the Third Epistle. " Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charm'd me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time : And feelings rous'd in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 pages
...from the Third Epistle. " Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charm'd me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time : And feelings rous'd in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the lay. Then rise those crags, that mountain... | |
 | Walter Scott (sir).) - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1814 - 592 pages
...poem called Marmion. Thus, while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts...mountain tower, Which charmed my fancy's wakening hour. Though no broad river swept along, To claim, perchance, heroic song; Though sighed no groves... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 434 pages
...child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time ; And feelings rous'd in life's first day Glow in the line, and prompt the...Then rise those crags, that mountain tower, Which charm'd my fancy's wakening hour : Though no broad river swept along To claim perchance heroic song... | |
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