 Tis said, as through the aisles they passed, They heard strange noises on the blast ; And through the cloister-galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall, Loud sobs, and laughter louder ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if...  The lay of the last minstrel, a poem - Страница 59по sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 334 страници
...cloister galleries small, Which at mid-night thread the chancel wall, Loud sobs, and louder laughter ran, And voices unlike the voice of man : As if the fiends kept holiday, Because their spoils were brought to day. I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 страници
...on the blast; And through the cloister-galleries small. Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall, Loud sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the 6cnds kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to d.iy. I cannot tell how the truth may be;... | |
 | 1849 - 522 страници
...portrait taken ; and the next time you honour me with your company, I will have it taken, sir." But— " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Mr. Lowndes never looks so comfortable as on his old chesnut mare : she never makes a mistake, is a... | |
 | William Howells - 1831 - 220 страници
...he would drown the country." The following story, I heard from an inhabitant of Carmarthen : — " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." It was lale one evening, in the times of fairies and ghosts, before you, gentle reader, or I had seen... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1832 - 690 страници
...arrivals in the Sydney Gazette. given them nearly in his own words, and I may say with Sir Walter Scott, " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." " The Legend of Knockathample" remains as the Otter-killer related it ; but with " Rose Roche" I confess... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 страници
...the blast ; And through the cloister-galleries small. Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall, Loud sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holyday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1833 - 322 страници
...twenty-six Lithographic Views taken on the spot, and drawn on Stone by G. JONES. Price 10s. 6d. in cloth. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas told to me. " SCOTT. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE VAUDOIS. Ina series of Twelve Views, engraved by EDWARD FINDI:N,... | |
 | 1832 - 448 страници
...DAMYNIS, AD 1449. But the En rs have not had this boast entirely to themselves. " In the year 1808, < I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale, as 'twas said to me.' " A captain of artillery resided in the ordnance barrack in the town of E . His wife, an Italian lady,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 684 страници
...!" L. PLUNDER CREEK.—1783. ^ A Legend of New York. ^_^~ BY THE AUTHOR OP "TALES OF AN ANTIQUARY." I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me.—SCOTT. THE reader perhaps scarcely requires to be reminded, that an acknowledgment of the independence... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 страници
...on the blast; And through the cloister-galleries small, Which at midheight thread the chancel wall. Loud sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike...truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. XX11L " Now, hie thee hence," the father said) "And, when we are on death-bed laid, О may our dear... | |
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