 My name is Norval ! on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks : a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home. For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike...  The Fair Penitent: A Tragedy - Page 41by Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 57 lehteFull view - About this book
 | British theatre - 1831 - 922 lehte
...frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home. For i had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow...warlike lord: And heav'n soon granted what my sire denied. This moon which rose last night, round as my shield, Hid not yet fill'd her horns, when, by... | |
 | Eliza Leslie - 1831 - 336 lehte
...frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home. For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven soon granted what my sire denied. This moon, which rose last night round as my shield, Had not... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 lehte
...increase his- store And keep his only son, myself, at home. For I had heard of battles, and I longed To follow to the field some warlike lord: And Heav«n soon granted what my sire denied; This Moon, which rose last night', round as my shield, Had not yet filled her horns, when,... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1831 - 1106 lehte
...and I long'd To &Qow to the field some warlike lord: And heaVn soon granted what my sire denied. TV* moon which rose last night, round as my shield, Had not yet filTd her horns, when, by her light, A hand of fierce barbarians, from the hills, Rna'd like a torrent... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 lehte
...and I longed To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven soon granted what my sire denied. This moon, which rose last night, round as my shield, Had not yet filled her horns, when, by her light, A band of fierce barbarians, from the hills, Rushed like a torrent... | |
 | 1833 - 828 lehte
...cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home. For I had heard of battle», and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord: And heaven soon granted what my sire denied. This moon which rose last night, round as my shield, Had not... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 lehte
...and I longed To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven soon granted what my sire denied. This moon, which rose last night, round as my shield, Had not yet filled her horns, when, by her light, A band of fierce barbarians, from the hills, Rushed like a torrent... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 lehte
...swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store. And keep his only son, myself, at home. For 1 had heard of battles, and I long'd : To follow to...warlike lord : And Heav'n soon granted what my sire denied. This moon, which rose last night, round u my shield. Had not yet filled Ler horns, when, by... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 lehte
...| Whose constant cares | were to increase Ais store', | And keep Ais only son, myself, at home, : | For I had heard of bat'tles, | and I long'd To follow to the field some warliAe lord' ; | And heaven soon granted what my sire denied, / | This moon, which rose last night,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 lehte
...his voice immediately before the parenthesis, and take up the same tone at it its close. Examples. " This moon, which rose last night, (round as my shield,) Had not yet filled her horns, when, (by her light,) A band of fierce barbarians," &,c. " Beneath a mountain's brow,... | |
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