 | Charles Heath - 348 Seiten
...riveted on an almost worn-out volume of ancient ballads. Of itself, it opened at Chevy Chase — " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take." " How perfectly," thought he, " does this set forth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 Seiten
...Cheviot within dayes thre, In the mauger of doughty Dougles, And all that ever with him be," Becomes, " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take," &c. From this, and other examples of the same kind,... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1833 - 250 Seiten
...became riveted on an almost wornout volume of ancient ballads. Of itself, it opened at Chevy Chase— " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take." " How perfectly," thought he, " does this set forth... | |
 | 1836 - 304 Seiten
...riveted on an almost worn-out volume of ancient ballads. Of itself, it opened at Chevy Chase — " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take." "How perfectly," thought he, "does this set forth... | |
 | 1836 - 932 Seiten
...and poetical, or resemble more the majestic simplicity of the ancients, than the following stanzas? ' The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summers' days to take. 'With fifteen hundred bowmen bold. All chosen men... | |
 | James Wilson - 1844 - 528 Seiten
...Hound and Horn, Earl Percy took his Way ; The Child may rue that was unborn, The Hunting of that Day. The stout Earl of Northumberland, A Vow to God did make, His Pleasure in the Scottish Woods, Three Smmmer's Days to take, With fifteen Hundred Bowmen bold, All chosen Men... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...hound and horn, Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn, The hunting of that day.1 The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take ; The chiefest harts in Chevy Chace To kill and bear... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...hound and horn, Earl Percy took his way; The child may rue that is unborn, The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear... | |
 | Philip Pendleton Kennedy - 1853 - 256 Seiten
...In the Arabian woods embossed"— not surpassed by anything of the sort that we have on record—not by Sancho Panza's, nor by Rittmaster Dugald Dalgetty's,...on the Scottish ground Three summer days to take." 9 THE stout Earl Percy, here alluded to, did take his pleasure on the Scottish ground — and how,... | |
 | 1853 - 524 Seiten
...and poetical, or resemble more the majestic simplicity of the ancients, than the following stanzas? " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take. With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men... | |
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GOD prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day. The stout Earl... 
