 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
 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1861 - 398 pagina’s
...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbors sought, Content with equity unbought ; To him the venerable priest. Our frequent and familiar...timeless joke : 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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 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...timeless joke : For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-willed imp, a grandame's child ; Jiut half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 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...timeless joke : 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 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...plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, caress'd. For me, thus nurtured, dost thou ask The classic poet's well-conn'd task ? Nay, Erskine,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 614 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...plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, caress'd. For me, thus nurtured, dost thou ask The classic poet's well-conn'd task ? Nay, Erskine,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pagina’s
...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sougli^ Content with equity unbpught ; To him the venerable Priest* Our frequent and familiar...timeless joke : 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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 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...timeless joke : For I was wayward, bold, and wild, Л self-will'd imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 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 giandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest. Was still endured, beloved, caress'd. For me,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1867 - 502 pagina’s
...charm as the fenced garden had for the mediaeval : " 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, caressed ; For me, thus nurtured, dost thou ask • The classic poet's well-conned task ? Nay, Erskine,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 478 pagina’s
...too oft I broke With gambol rude and timeless joke; 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." It was, he said, during his residence at Smallholm crags, that he first imbibed his passion for legendary... | |
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