 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 - Pagina 359door Walter Scott - 1808 - 377 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1841 - 624 pagina’s
...going to the hut by land. CHAPTER IX. " Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful hoar alone ; Perchance, her reason stoops, or reels ; Perchance, a courage not her own, Braces her mind to desperata tone '' Scott. WHILE the chase was occurring on the lake, Miss Temple and her companion pursued... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pagina’s
...mark he would return in haste. Then plunged into the fight. L_ Aik me DO* »hut the maiden feels, I^ft in that dreadful hour alone : Perchance her reason...to desperate tone. — The scattered van of England wheel»; She only aid, as loud in air The tumult roared, " Is Wilton there?" — They fly, or, maddened... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pagina’s
...cast, To mark he would return in haste, Then plunged into the fight. Ask me not what the maiden feeh, Left in that dreadful hour alone : Perchance her reason stoops, or reels; Perct.ance a courage not her own, Eraces her mind to desperate tone. — The scattered van of England... | |
 | John Palgrave Simpson - 1846 - 938 pagina’s
...insinuate that her departure had not been taken unaided and alone. CHAPTER XII. THE NIGHT IN THE CHAMBER. Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...courage, not her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone. SCOTT. Night is a murderous slut That would not have her treasons to be seen ; And yonder pale fac'd... | |
 | 1881 - 494 pagina’s
...the day, The crimson of the sunset sky, How fast they fade away." CF ALEXANDER. " Ask me not what a maiden feels Left in that dreadful hour alone : Perchance her reason stoops and reels, Perchance a courage not her own Braces her mind to desperate tone." SCOTT. " MAIDA, who... | |
 | James M'Henry - 1848 - 470 pagina’s
...bless thee," said Tonnaleuka, and waving his awful wand over her head, he disappeared. CHAPTER XV. Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...courage not her own Braces her mind to desperate tone. SCOTT. IN about half an hour after the prophet withdrew, De Villiers visited Maria. He expressed great... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1851 - 520 pagina’s
...rifle, he ascended the mountain, with an intention of going to the hut by land. L . CHAPTER XXVIII. Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful...courage not her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone. SCOTT. WHILE the chase was occurring on the lake, Miss Temple and her companion pursued their walk... | |
 | Arabella M. Stuart Willson - 1851 - 378 pagina’s
...and destroy them ; — • can the female heart, we are ready to ask, endure such fearful trial ? " Perchance her reason stoops, or reels ; Perchance...courage not her own Braces her mind to desperate tone." Yes, her mind was stayed by a " courage not her own/7 but it was " braced" to no " desperate tone ;"... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
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