 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 pages
...wounded side. " Then it was truth," — he said — " I knew That the dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due...Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying groan,1 And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not be ! — this dizzy... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...his wounded side. "Then it was truth!" — he said — "I knew That the dark presage must be true. I would the fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due...her wrongs, Would spare me but a day! For wasting life, and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...wounded side. " Then it was truth," — he said—" I know That the dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day I For, wasting fire, and dying groan,* And priests slain on the altar stone, from the discordi by which... | |
 | G. M. Sterne - 1859 - 302 pages
...met his sight ; Such signs may learned clerks explain, They pass the wit of simple swain." Scott. " It may not be ! this dizzy trance. Curse on yon base...failing brand, A sinful heart makes feeble hand." Scott. IT was during the persecution of the early covenanters that the chief of Glencairn had set his... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pages
...wounded side. " Then it was truth!"-— he said—" I knew That the dark presage must, be true.— XXXL I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a dayj For wasting fire and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay.... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...wounded side. " Then it was truth ! " — he said — " I knew That the dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due...on yon base marauder's lance, And doubly cursed my falling brand ! A sinful heart makes feeble hand." — Then, fainting, down on earth he sunk, Supported... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...wounded side. " Then it was truth ! "—he said—" I knew That the dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day I For wasting fire, and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar stone, Might bribe him for delay.... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 pages
...that state of innocence in which I had wandered in those shades. — LauJj. 11. I would the friend to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs Would spare me but a day. — Scott. 12. When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. — Shakespeare.... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...wounded side. " Then it was truth ! " — he said — " I knew That the dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due...stone, Might bribe him for delay. It may not be ! this di/zy trance — Curse on yon base marauder's lance, And doubly cursed my falling brand ! A sinful... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...wounded side. " Then it was truth !" — he said—" I knew That the dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs. Would spare n*e but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying groan, And priests slain on the altar-stone, Might bribe... | |
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In vain for Constance is your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle."— Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt no wound ; Though in the action burst the tide, In torrents, from his wounded side. " Then it was truth," he said — " I knew... 
