 Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest ! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh haste, unfold the hospitable hall ! That hall, where once, in antiquated state, The chair of justice held the grave debate.  Poems - Page 3by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1792 - 640 pages
...• " * See-Rev, vol.lxxv. p. 49. VOL. vin, К Now Now ilain'd with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round yon ample board, in due degree, We fweeten'd every meal with forial glee. Ttie heart's light laughter crown'd the circling jeft ; And... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1792 - 612 pages
...held the grave debate. Now itain'd with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peats of rapture rung ; When round yon ample board, in due degree, We fweetcn'd every meal with focial glee. The heart's light laughter crown'd the circling je ft; • Ana... | |
 | 1793 - 542 pages
...ftate, The chair of jullicc held the grave debate. Now ftain'd with dews, with cobwebs darWy hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round yon ample board, in due degree, We fweeten'd every meal with focial glee. The heart's light laughter crov/n'd the clrclin; jeft; And all... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 222 pages
...Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rang; When round yon ample board, in due degree, We sweeten'd every meal with social glee. The heart's light laugh...all was sunshine in each little breast. Twas here we chas'd the slipper by its sound ; And turn'd the blindfold hero round and round. Twas here, at eve,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 208 pages
...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now stain'd with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung; When round yon ample board, in due degree, We sweeten'd every meal with social glee. The heart's light laugh pursued the circling jest; And all was... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1802 - 308 pages
...state, The chair of justice' held the grave debate. Now stain'd with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round yon ample board, in due degree, We sweeten'd every meal with social glee. The heart's light laugh pursued the circling jest; And all was... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now stain'd with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round yon ample board, in due degree, We sweeten'd every meal with social glee. The heart's light laughter crown'd the circling jest, And all... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...state, The chair of justice held the grave debate. Now stained with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung I Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung ; When round yon ample board, in due decree, We sweetened every meal with social glee. The heart's light laughter crowned the circling jest... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...nest; Long may the ruin spare its hallow'd guest. — Now stain'd with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung; When round yon ample board, in due degree, We sweeten'd every meal with social glee. The heart's light laughter crovvn'd the circling jest; And all... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...state, The chair of justice held, the grave debate. Now stained with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung, on ! Unfading HOPE! when life's last embers burn, When soul to soul, and dust to dust return, Heaven iU sound ; And turned the blindfold hero round and round. 'Twas here, at eve, we formed our fairy-ring;... | |
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