 | 1808 - 416 pagina’s
...toil ; His cheek was sunk, alas the while ! And when he struggled at a smile, His eye looked haggard wild. Poor wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-burned hair, She had not known her child. Danger, long travel, want, or woe, Soon change the form... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pagina’s
...toil ; . His cheek was sunk, alas the while ! And when he struggled at a smile, His eye looked haggard wild. Poor wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-burned hair, ' She had not known her child. Danger, long travel, want, or woe, Soon change the... | |
 | 1808 - 546 pagina’s
...when he struggled at a smile, His eye looked haggard wild. Poor wretch ! the mother that him hare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-burned hair, She had not known her child. Danger, long travel, want, or woe, Soon change the form... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pagina’s
...sword.' — Ivanhoc, vol. i. ch. 5. A slight inaccuracy of construction in the following sentence, " Poor wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had...and sunburn'd hair, She had not known her child." 244 Is thus repeated, — " A countenance so much reduced by ' loss of blood .... that no one could... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 532 pagina’s
...wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-burned hair, She had not known her child. Danger, long travel,...woe, Soon change the form that best we know — For deadlly fear can time outgo, And blaunch at once the hair ; Hard toil can roughen form and face, And... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pagina’s
...cheek was sunk, alas the while ! r VXTO I. And when he struggled at a smile, His eye looked haggard wild. Poor wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-burned hair, She had not known her child. Danger, long travel, want, or woe, Soon change the form... | |
 | 1825 - 806 pagina’s
...1825. C. * The Secretary (now sick) is culled on for mi explanation — CN THt GYPSY OF DEBHETZ1N. Danger, long travel, want, or woe, •Soon change the form that best we know—- And blanch at once the hair ; Hard toil can roughen form and face. Nor does old age a wrinkle trace,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pagina’s
...wretch ! the mother that him har*, If she had heen in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-hurned hair, She had not known her child. Danger, long travel, want, or wo, Soon change the form that hest we know — For deadly fear can time outgo, And hlanch at once the... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 pagina’s
...sword." — Ivanhoe, vol. i. ch 5. A slight inaccuracy of construction in the following sentence, " Poor wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had...and sunburn'd hair, She had not known her child." Marmion, Canto I. St. 28. Is thus repeated, — " A countenance so much reduced J>y loss of blood ....... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pagina’s
...knows much, perchance e'en more Than he could learn by holy lore. Still to himself he's muttering, And shrinks as at some unseen thing. Last night we listen'd...she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sim-buru'd hair, She had not known her child. Danger, long travel, want, or woe, Soon change the form... | |
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Poor wretch, the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face and sunburnt hair She had not known her child. 
