PoemsWalter Scott, 1820 - 24 pages |
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Page i
... face ; T portive light , uncertain where it falls , Now strikes the roof , now flashes on the walls . LONDON : Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington ; Longman and Co ; Cadell and Davies ; Black and Co .; John Richardson ; James Richardson ...
... face ; T portive light , uncertain where it falls , Now strikes the roof , now flashes on the walls . LONDON : Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington ; Longman and Co ; Cadell and Davies ; Black and Co .; John Richardson ; James Richardson ...
Page vii
... face is often but a mask worn occasionally , and in company , to prevent , if possible , a suspicion of what at the same time is passing in the heart . We know that there are people who seldom smile when they are alone , who therefore ...
... face is often but a mask worn occasionally , and in company , to prevent , if possible , a suspicion of what at the same time is passing in the heart . We know that there are people who seldom smile when they are alone , who therefore ...
Page 4
... face ; If smiling peeresses , and simpering peers , Encompassing his throne a few short years ; If the gilt carriage and the pamper'd steed , That wants no driving , and disdains the lead ; If guards , mechanically forin'd in ranks ...
... face ; If smiling peeresses , and simpering peers , Encompassing his throne a few short years ; If the gilt carriage and the pamper'd steed , That wants no driving , and disdains the lead ; If guards , mechanically forin'd in ranks ...
Page 9
... face ; When the rude rabble's watchword was - Destroy , And blazing London seem'd a second Troy ; Liberty blush'd , and hung her drooping head , Beheld their progress with the deepest dread ; Blush'd , that effects like these she should ...
... face ; When the rude rabble's watchword was - Destroy , And blazing London seem'd a second Troy ; Liberty blush'd , and hung her drooping head , Beheld their progress with the deepest dread ; Blush'd , that effects like these she should ...
Page 10
... face , He stood , as some inimitable hand Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand . No sycophant or slave , that dared oppose Her sacred cause , but trembled when he rose ; And every venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crush'd ...
... face , He stood , as some inimitable hand Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand . No sycophant or slave , that dared oppose Her sacred cause , but trembled when he rose ; And every venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crush'd ...
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