 Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh: With hesitating step at last, The embattled portal arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd...  The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Page 13by Walter Scott - 1806 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...last, The emhattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy har Had oft rolled hack the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Dutchess* marked his weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And hade her page the menials tell,... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft rolled...The Duchess * marked his weary pace, • His timid mcin , and reverend face, And bade her page the menials tell, That they should tend the old man well;... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...at last, The embattled portal-arch he pass'd, 10 Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess* mark'd his weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And bade her page the menials tell, That... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...humbler resting-place was nigh ; With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal arch he passed, 7 Whose ponderous grate and massy bar * Had oft rolled back the tide of war, 8 But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. 9 The duchess marked his weary paee,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...step, at last, The embaiilcd portal-arch he pass'd. Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft lull .1 back the tide of war. But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The duchess l mark'd his weary pace, Ills timid mien, sad reverend face. And bade her page the menials tell, That... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...humbler resting-place was nigb. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal -arch he past, . i Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft rolled...the menials tell, That they should tend the old man rceil : > For she bad known tdveraty, Though born in such a high degret ; In pride of power, in beauty's... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...step at last. The embattled portal arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Hath oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door...face, And bade her page the menials tell, That they shouldtend the old man well : For she had known adversity. Though born in such a high degree ; In pride... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Hud oft rolled back the tide of war, But never closed...Against the desolate and poor. The duchess* marked bis weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And bade her page the menials tell, That they should... | |
 | Jerrold Vernon, Grace Horsley Darling - Darling, Grace - 1839 - 514 pages
...arrival. CHAPTER XXII. " The embattled portal-arch he passed, W hose ponderous grate, and massy liar, Had oft rolled back the tide of war, But never closed the iron dnor Agaioat the desolate and poor." CONGRATULATIONS to Grace Darling continued to pour in from every... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...humbler resting-place was nigh. 4 With hesitating step, at last Tho embattled portal-arch he. passed, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft rolled...closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. 'J'he dutchess marked his weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And bade her page the menials... | |
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