 | 1882 - 866 Seiten
...the best-known stanza in it, describing the young man who proves false to Euth, is thus worded: — " He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he." " I guess " is very vulgar, inappropriate — for there is no guessing in the case — and evidently... | |
 | 1883 - 876 Seiten
...and swift," and again, " sleeping in beauty on the mangled prey, as panthers sleep ;" Wordsworth : He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he, and so with others. But even in these (Dryden' shaving a correct significance), the touch of the beast... | |
 | Belgravia - 1883 - 544 Seiten
...swift,' and again, ' sleeping in beauty on the mangled prey, as panthers sleep ; ' Wordsworth : lie was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he. 1 So Leyden also has ' the brinded paiiiher fierce.' and so with others. But even in these (Dryden's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 912 Seiten
...remarked, would bring a blessing on the shore, and send them " mair wrecks ere winter." * CHAPTER EIGHTH. He was a lovely youth I guess ; The panther in the...of Mordaunt Mertoun was not long of bearing him to Yarlshof. He entered the house hastily, for what he himself had observed that morning corresponded... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 Seiten
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the...play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of fear ; Such tales... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 Seiten
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely Youth ! I guess The panther in the...sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the trppic sea. Among the Indians he had fought, And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 Seiten
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the...as he ; '« And, when he chose to sport and play, Xo dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought ; And with him many... | |
 | Philip Stewart Robinson - 1885 - 406 Seiten
...swift," and again, " sleeping in beauty on the mangled prey, as panthers sleep ; " Wordsworth — " He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he," and so with others. In the East a " panther waist," " panther elegance," is a stereotyped phrase in the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 496 Seiten
...the shore, and send them "mair wrecks ere muter." * * Note G. Mair wrecks ere winter. CHAPTER EIGHTH. He was a lovely youth I guess ; The panther in the...of Mordaunt Mertoun was not long of bearing him to Yarlshof. He entered the house hastily, for what he himself had observed that morning corresponded... | |
 | 1887 - 370 Seiten
...a boy The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as lie ; And when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the... | |
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He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. 
