 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
 | Elizabeth Cartwright Penrose - 1851 - 642 страници
...Hurrah ! for the jolly tars ! I hope the story is true, for the honour of the British navy. Mrs. M. " I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Before we dismiss from our memories Louis XVI. " and his times," it will not be uninteresting to take... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 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...fiends kept holiday. Because these spells were brought to-day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. "Now, hie thee hence,"... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 330 страници
...his story may be too much for the reader's faith, he puts in such a makeweight as the following : " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Other examples will be found in Cantos V. 6, V. 13r VI. 5. Twice however in the course of the poem... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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...truth may be ; • I say the tale as 'twas said to me. Tire TRIAL OF CONSTANCE. While round the fire such legends go, Far different was the scene of wo, Where,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 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...truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. xxm. . " Now, hie thee hence," the Father said, " And when we are on death -bed laid, O may our dear... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 страници
...; And through the cloister-galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall, Loud sob^, and laughter louder, ran. And voices unlike the voice...fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought fo day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. XXIIL * Now, hie thee... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 страници
...lasses, 0. Green grow the rushes. BURNS. In notes by distance made more sweet. The Passions. COLLINS. I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me. Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto ii. SCOTT. 1 L'Esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille. French Proverb.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 страници
...the cloister-galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall, Loud sobs, and langhter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ;...holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. a I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I Bay the tale as 'twas said to me. XXIII. " Now, hie thee hence,"... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1856 - 754 страници
...lo Turpin, lo metto anch' io," says Ariosto, playfully, when he tells a particularly tough story. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me," •ays the author of the " Lay* on a similar occasion. The resemblance Burns. The book speedily found... | |
 | John Jordan - 1857 - 500 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...truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. Such, however, was in former times the current of superstition, that the air was supposed to be if... | |
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