 Thou who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic moral gay, Nor less the dullest theme bid flit On wings of unexpected wit; In letters as in life approved, Example honored and beloved, Dear Ellis! to the bard impart A lesson of thy magic art.  The Early Life of Samuel Rogers - Page 366by Peter William Clayden - 1888 - 406 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...break his glass, and shear his wing, And bid, reviving in his strain, The gentle poet live again ; Thou, who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic...unexpected wit; In letters as in life approved, Example honoured, and beloved,— Dear ELLIS ! to the bard impart A lesson of thy magic art, To win at once... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1815 - 740 pages
...jovrnents of society, to carry cm¿sulatkne to hit sick-bed. Another of his friends thus addressed him: “Thou, who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic moral gay, Nor less the dullest theme bid ait On wings of uisexpec*edwit, In letters as In life approvid, Example honou! 5 d and balov'd, Dear... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...And break his glass, and shear his wing, And bid, reviving in his strain, The gentle poet live again; Thou, who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic...unexpected wit; In letters as in life approved, Example honoured, and beloved,— Dear ELLIS ! to the bard impart A lesson of thy magic art, To win at once... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...break his glass, and shear his wing, \nd bid, reviving in his strain> The gentle poet live again ; Thou, who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic...unexpected wit ; In letters, as in life approved* Example honour'd, and beloved,— Dear EL us ! to. the bard impart A lesson of thy magic art, To win at once... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 530 pages
...break his glass, and shear his wing, And bid, -reviving in his strain, The gentle poet live again; Thou, who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic...unexpected wit; In letters as in life approved, Example honour ' d, and beloved,— Dear ELLIS ! to the Bard impart A lesson of thy magic art, To win at once... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 pages
...break his glass, and shear his wing, And bid, reviving in his strain, The gentle poet live again ; Thou, who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic...unexpected wit; In letters as in life approved, Example honour'd, and beloved,— Dear ELLIS ! to the Bard impart A lesson of thy magic art, To win at once... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...And break his glass, and shear his wing. And bid, reviving in his strain, The gentle poet live again: Thou, who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic...unexpected wit; In letters, as in life approved, Example honour'd, and beloved,— Dear ELLIS ! to the bard impart A lesson of thy magic art, To win at once... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 858 pages
...introduction to the fifth canto of Marmion, addresses and describes him in the following lines: Thou who canat give to lightest lay An unpedantic moral gay; Nor...flit On wings of unexpected ‘wit; In letters as in life'approv'd, -‘ - E¿arnple ho¿iour'd and belov'd, - Dear E1li¿! to the bard impart ‘A lesson... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...reviving in his strain. The gentle poet live again ; Thou, who cant! give to lightest lay An unpedamic moral gay, Nor less the dullest theme bid flit On wings of unexpected wit; In letters, ae in life, approved, Example honour d, and beloved,— Dear ELLIS ! to the bard impart A lesson of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 590 pages
...seventy. Sir Walter Scott, in the introduction to the fifth canto of Marmion, thus addresses him— " Thou, who canst give to lightest lay An unpedantic...unexpected wit; In letters as in life approved, Example honour'd and beloved; Dear Ellis! to the bard impart A lesson of thy magic art, To win at once the... | |
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