| Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...bride kissed the goblet ; the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — " Now tread we a measure !" said... | |
| 1808 - 560 pages
...fen, And, with their cries discontent mix'd, Grumbled and yelled the pipes betwixt." writing nonsense. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. The senseless inanity of such lines but felt by parody. Let us try another: She. looked... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...bride kissed the goblet ; the knight took it up, He quaffed oft' the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar — " Now tread we a measure !" sakj... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...bride kissed the goblet ; the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar — " Now tread we a measure !" said... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1810 - 960 pages
...bride kissed the goblet ; the knight took it up, ' He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush; and she -looked up to sigh, With. a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,*— *' Now tread we a measure !"... | |
| 1810 - 928 pages
...bride kissed the goblrt ; the. knight took it up, He quaffed off t)\c wine, and he. threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — • " Now tread we a meaf ure... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...bride kissed the goblet ; the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — " Now tread we a measure !" said... | |
| Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to hlush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could har, — " Now tread we a measure !" said... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1820 - 958 pages
...bride kissed the goblet ; the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— " Now tread we a measure !" said... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 318 pages
...trial to leave home," &c. This from the knot of spinsters. The bride-elect was evidently affected — She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips — it was not the fault of her intentions, but she could not act the remainder of the line — and... | |
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