Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1806 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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Page 277 - The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well.a.day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead;
Page 280 - O listen, listen, ladies gay ! No haughty feat of arms I tell; Soft is the note, and sad the lay, ' That mourns the lovely Rosabelle. And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, « Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew!
Page 280 - their way to Tweed, Had only heard the shepherd's reed, Nor started at the bugle'horn. Unlike the tide of human time, Which, though it change in ceaseless flow, Retains each grief, retains each crime. Its earliest course was doomed to know ; And, darker as it downward bears, Is stained with past and present tears.
Page 132 - Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past; But you may stay yet here a while, To blush and gently smile ; And go at last.
Page 281 - Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose.carved buttress fair — So still they blaze when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle
Page 280 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed ; In hamlets, dances on the green. In halls, in gay attire is seen; Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and
Page 154 - disdaining the parade of taking possession of a vanquished enemy, most gallantly pushed up with every sail set, to save his old friend and messmate, who was to appearance in a critical state. The Blenheim being ahead, the Culloden crippled and astern, the Excellent ranged up within two feet of the San Nicholas, giving a most tremendous
Page 278 - He carolled, light as lark at morn; No more, on prancing palfrey borne. No longer, courted and caressed, High, placed in hall, a welcome guest, The unpremeditated lay; He poured to lord and lady gay, Old times were changed, old manners gone, The bigots of
Page 278 - 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 passed, Whose ponderous grate, and massy bar, Had oft rolled back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess * marked his weary pace, His
Page 293 - man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of the whole nature, which is commonly called original sin, together with all actual transgressions which