 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 páginas
...rows to land: Adieu ! she cries ; and waved her lily hand. A BALLAD, FROM THE WHAT-D' YE-CALL-IT. 1 TWAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind; A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. Wide o'er the foaming billows' She casts a wistful look; Her head was crown'd with willows*... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...judges alike of the facts and the laws. The Honest Jury. JOHN GAY. 1688-1732. 'T was when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. The What £>' ye call 't. Act ii. Sc. 8. So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er, The... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1875 - 458 páginas
...Beneath a fountain. Three Iambuses, with hypermeter of the same kind. "T was when the seas were roarinp With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. f bw /aminses. Five lamluies, or the Heroic measure. Be wise to-day, 't is madness to defer How loved,... | |
 | David Campbell (of Montrose acad.) - 1876 - 80 páginas
...Gay's Stanza consists of four verses— Trimeter hypermetrical alternating with complete Trimeter ; as — 'Twas when the seas were roar-ing With hollow...A damsel lay deplor-ing All on a rock reclined.— GAY. 6. The Ottava Bima is the Heroic Metre of the Italians, and consists of eight verses of Heroics,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 páginas
...rows to land : 11 Adieu !" she cries ; and wav'd her lily hand A BALLAD, FROM THE WHAT-D'YB-CALL-IT. man. — Who, reclin'd. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cait a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows,... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1877 - 234 páginas
...Wolferstan. In a moment the austerity has fled, dispersed and rooted by a surprised red smile. " ' 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rook reclined l '" he says with a low laugh, that mixes pleasantly with the noise of the tumbling waves,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 páginas
...brought out his fables, which are highly esteemed as specimens of their class, but they A BALLAD. "i'was She cast a wistful look: Her head was crowned with willows All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 páginas
...slight,* in the "Beggar's Opera "f and in its wearisome continuation (where the verses are to the full as * " 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow...foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. " ' Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 páginas
...Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot. The reader will fail to trace any indication of composite authorship :— ' 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the rolling billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crowned with willows That tremble o'er the brook.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 páginas
...Blight,* in the "Beggar's Opera"! and in its wearisome continuation (where the verses are to the full as * " Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow...foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. " ' Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long... | |
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Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. " ' Twelve months are gone... 
