 Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful hour alone: Perchance her reason stoops or reels; Perchance a courage, not her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone. The scattered van of England wheels; She only said, as loud in air The tumult...  Marmion;: A Tale of Flodden Field - Page 359by Walter Scott - 1808 - 377 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pages
...look and sign to Clara cast, To mark he would return in haste, Then plunged into the fight. XXVIII. Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...to desperate tone. — The scattered van of England whee!3}~ She only said, as loud in air The tumult roared, " Is Wilton there?"— They fly, or, maddened... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1862 - 618 pages
...mountain, with an intention of going to the hut by CHAPTEK XXYII1 w Ask mo not what the maiden feel* Left in that dreadful hour alone ; Perchance, her...courage not her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone n Sco«. WHILE the chase was occurring on the lake Miss Temple and her companion pursued their walk... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...sight, A look and sign to Clara cast, To mark he would return in haste, Then plunged into the fight. Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone. — The scatter'd van of England wheels ; — She only said, as loud in air The tumult roared, " Is Wilton... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...sight, A look and sign to Clara cast, To mark he would return in haste, 2^ Then plunged into the fight. Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...stoops, or reels ; Perchance a courage, not her own, 30 Braces her mind to desperate tone. — The scatter'd van of England wheels ; — She only said,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...he would return in haste, 25 Then plunged into the fight. Ask ?ne not what the maiden feels, I/;ft in that dreadful hour alone : Perchance her reason...stoops, or reels ; Perchance a courage, not her own, 80 Braces her mind to desperate tone. — The scatter'd van of England wheels ; — She only said,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...look and sign to Clara cast, To mark he would return in haste, Then plunged into the fight. XXVIII. Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...despair, Fight but to die. — " Is Wilton there?" — With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drenched with gore, And in their arius,... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1864 - 432 pages
...middle as;es — the middle age of man. To return to Scott, for this is a theme too tragic for prose : Perchance her reason stoops or reels, Perchance a courage not her own Braces her mind to desp'rate tone. Alas ! what are accomplishments ? what arc youth, beauty, virtue, in this degenerate... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...sight, A look and sign to Clara cast, To mark he would return in haste, Then plunged into the fight. Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...by despair, Fight but to die. — " Is Wilton there ?" With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drenched with gore, And in their arms, a... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...look and sign to Clara cast, To mark he would return in haste, Then plunged into the fight. XXVIII Ask me not what the maiden feels. Left in that dreadful...van of England wheels ;— She only said, as loud m air The tumult roared, " Is Wilton there ?" They fly, or, maddened by despair, Fight but to die.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...sight, A look and sign to Clara cast, To mark he would return in haste, Then plunged into the fight Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone. — The scatter'cl van of England wheels; — She only said, as loud in air The tumult roar'd," IsWilton there?"—... | |
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