GOD prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day. Old Nursery songs, stories, and ballads - Página 3por Old nursery songs - 1869Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 páginas
...greater than either the thought or the expression in that stanza, To drive the deer with hound and bora Earl Percy took his way ! The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day !' This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity, not only on... | |
| Hannah More - 1803 - 526 páginas
...and queeas ; Resolv'd in pity to this polish'd age, To drive these ballad-heroes from the stage. " To drive the deer with hound and horn, " Earl Percy...may rue, that is unborn, " The hunting of that day." A pretty basis, truly, for a modern play ! What! shall a scribbling, senseless woman dare To your refmements... | |
| 1803 - 434 páginas
...poetical, or resemble more the majestic simplicity of the ancients, than the following stanzas ? ' The stout Earl of Northumberland ' A vow to God did make, ' His pleasure in the Scottish woodi ' Three summer's days to take. • With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, ' All chosen men of might,... | |
| 1803 - 420 páginas
...poetical, or resemble more the majestic simplicity of the ancients, than the following stanzas ? • The stout Earl of Northumberland • A vow to God did make, ' His pleasure in the Scottish woodi 4 Three summer's days to take. ' With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, ' All chosen men of might,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 páginas
...following quotations. What can be greater than either the thought or the expression in that stanza, To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took...child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day ! This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity, not only on... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 páginas
...following quotations. What can be greater than either the thought or the expression in that stanza, To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took...! The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of thai day ! This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity, not... | |
| Joseph Ritson - 1810 - 232 páginas
...lives and safeties all ; . .. : 4- woeful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. •• -* ' To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Percy...hunting of that day. The stout earl of Northumberland - r A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summers days to take ; The chiefest... | |
| Thomas Hogg - 1811 - 120 páginas
...called " Chevy-chace Room.'' Its appearance is much caleulated to recall to the mind those times, when " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summers days to take. " Ballad of Chevy-Chaoe. 26 ST. MICHAEL's MOUNT. CANTO n. Through painted lattices,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 páginas
...either the thought or the expression in that stanza ? To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Piercy took -his way : The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day ! This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity, not only on... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 páginas
...either the thought or the expression in that stanza ? To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Piercy took his way : The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day! This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity, not only on those... | |
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