 To him the venerable Priest, Our frequent and familiar guest, Whose life and manners well could paint Alike the student and the saint ; Alas ! whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude and timeless joke : For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd...  Marmion - Pagina 128door sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Mary Brunton - 1832 - 492 pagina’s
...November, 1814. DISCIPLINE. CHAPTER I. —I was wayward, bold, and wild : A self-willed imp ; agrandame's child ; But, half a plague and half a jest, Was still endured, belored, rarest. WJU.TEB Scon. X HAVE heard it remarked, that he who writes his own history ought to... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 pagina’s
...— his grandfather's farm at Sandyknow : — •'- For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-willed imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Wai still endured, beloved, carest." Neither was his experience of pain derived from poverty, from... | |
 | 1833 - 492 pagina’s
...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought ; To him the venerable priest, Our frequent and familiar...was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grand-dame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endur'd, belov'd, caress'd." It... | |
 | 1833 - 490 pagina’s
...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought ; To him the venerable priest, Our frequent and familiar...was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grand-dame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endur'd, belov'd, caress'd." It... | |
 | 1863 - 432 pagina’s
...to Mr John Martin, the minister of Mertoun, in which parish Smailholm Tower stood, he proceeds — " Alas ! whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude...plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, caress'd." We realise here the oft-repeated picture of children nursed under the eye and roof of their... | |
 | John McVickar - 1833 - 92 pagina’s
...imp," we have his own authority for saying, but then he goes on to add what we can readily believe, " But half a plague and half a jest Was still endured, beloved, carest." of his frolics than his studies, we may conclude that the wild nature was still uppermost in him. Among... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 262 pagina’s
...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought : To him the venerable Priest, Our frequent and familiar...whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude and timeles joke : For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grandame's child ; But half... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 352 pagina’s
...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought; To him the venerable Priest, Our frequent and familiar...could paint Alike the student and the saint ; Alas I whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude and timeless joke z For I was wayward, bold, and wild,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 374 pagina’s
...home — his grandfather's farm at Sandyknow : — " For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-willed imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, carest." Neither was his experience of pain derived from poverty, from a baffling of desires, from a deprivation... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 372 pagina’s
...home — his grandfather's farm at Sandyknow : — " For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-willed imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, earest." Neither was his experience of pain derived from poverty, from a baffling of desires, from... | |
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