 My name is Norval ! on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks : a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home. For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike...  The Fair Penitent: A Tragedy - Sida 41efter Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 57 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Young (M.A.) - 1845 - 198 sidor
...neither converse nor think of anything that did not in some way or other pertain to deeds of arms. ' For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow...warlike lord. And Heav'n soon granted what my sire denied.' " The ordinary concerns of life became all but distasteful to me. I looked upon everything... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 sidor
...swain, Whose constant cares were to ir.crer.se his store, And keep his only son, myselT, ai, home. For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven soon granted what tay sire denied. Yon moon, which rose last night round as my shield. Had not... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 sidor
...suspend his voice immediately before the parenthesis, and take up the same tone at its close. Examples. " This moon, which rose last night, (round as my shield,) Had not yet filled her horns, when, (by her light,) A band of fierce barbarians," &c. " Beneath a mountain's brow,... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 sidor
...a frugal swain, Whose only care was to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home. For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven soon granted what my sire denied. Yon moon, which rose last night round as my shield, Had not... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 sidor
...and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heav'n soon granted what my sire denied. This moon, which rose last night round as my shield, Had not yet filled her horns, when, by her light, A band of fierce barbarians from the hills Kush'd like a torrent... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 sidor
...| Whose constant cares | were to increase Ais store', | And keep his only son, myself, at home* : | For I had heard of bat'tles, | and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord' ; | And heaven soon granted \vhat my sire denied^ / 1 This moon, which rose \ast night, round as my shield,... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 sidor
...frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home. For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And heaven soon granted what my sire denied. This moon, which rose last night, round as my shield, Had... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 sidor
...| Whose constant cares | were to increase his store', | And keep Ais only son, myself, at home, : | For I had heard of bat'tles, | and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord' ; | And heaven soon granted what my sire deniedv / I This moon, which rose last night, round as my shield,... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 sidor
...and I longed To follow to the field some warlike lord : And Heaven soon granted what my sire denied. This moon, which rose last night, round as my shield, Had not yet filled her horns, when, by her light, A band of fierce barbarians, from the hills, Bushed, like a torrent,... | |
 | 1859 - 836 sidor
...frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store. And keep his only son, myself, at home. For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord : And heaven soon granted what my sire denied. This moon which rose last night, round as my shield, Had not... | |
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