 | 1844 - 784 ページ
...the music of the other. The first is the opening couplet of one of the Cantos of the Lay — " Call it not vain : they do not err, Who say that when the...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies." Mr. Bryant's are these — "Truth crushed to Earth shall rise again ; The eternal years of God are... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 ページ
...lawyer, and a father, (which will appear in our next,) may open the way for romething hetter. Call it not vain— they do not err, Who say, that when...POET dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celehrates his ohsequies. For the New Mirror. RECOLLECTlONS OF THE LATE TYRONE POWER. BEFORE I proceed... | |
 | 1844 - 628 ページ
...lanes after bits of rock and stone, crushing every beautiful flower in your eagerness, is * " Call it not vain — they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies. Mute Nature mourns her worshipper. Tom (putting his hand over her mouth). Pray don't say what it is till I tell you of a young lady who... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 ページ
...ran. 1 THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say, that when...oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 ページ
...objects, a shade of sadness seemed to rest on them, as if they bewailed the departed Minstrel. " Call it not vain — they do not err Who say, that when...cliff and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moau ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 ページ
...grove, And men below, and saints above : For love is heaven, and heaven is love. DEATH OF A POET. CALL it not vain — they do not err . Who say that, when...oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate... | |
 | E. Harmon - 1846 - 122 ページ
...yet to come, And hears thy stormy music in the drum. LESSON xx. LAMENT FOR THE BARD.— SCOTT. Gall it not vain ; — they do not err, Who say that when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; G Who say tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1848 - 52 ページ
...profit." There are few, I suppose, who do not recollect the lines of Walter Scott, beginning thus : " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when the...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." This is said of the poet ; but the landscape painter is admitted, to a_doser familiarityj^h^jiaUjrejthaii... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 ページ
...shortlived blaze. Smiled then, well pleased, the aged man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO V. I. CALL it not vain :—they do not err, Who say, that when...oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. lot that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things... | |
 | John Wilson - 1850 - 378 ページ
...obsequies ; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone Fur the departed bard make moan ; That mountains meet in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil...oaks in deeper groan reply, And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." North. And there the last Minstrel should have ceased.... | |
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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... 
