 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...thee so that none could love thee best. FOURTH CANTO OF CII1LDE HAROIJ). CONCLUSION. Walter Scott. CALL it not vain:— they do not err, Who say, that...her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; Who nay, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1830 - 582 pages
...stranger coincidence remains, for both died upon the same day. If it be indeed true then, that, — " they do not err Who say that when the Poet dies Mute...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies," — how shall we be able to estimate the grief which pervaded Spain and England, on the 12th of April,... | |
 | Elizabeth Holmes - 1832 - 300 pages
...gathered together all mute nature's sympathies to bewail him. I remembered Sir W. Scott's lines, " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." I need not write down that passage—who does not know it, and delight in it ? But that singular stone,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1832 - 312 pages
...foundations to the centre nod, And Nature tremble to the throne of God. "f So likewise Sir Walter Scott : " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say that, when the poet dies, Mute Nature is his worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." Hence is derived the phrase natural philosophy, as... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say. tall clifTand cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan : That mountains weep in crystal rills That flowers... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
..."•' ! ... i1 i P , ....> linn.. ..... V.-.I. « The Poetical Works »f ST Coleridge. 3 Vol». *' Call it not vain ! they do not err, Who say that when a poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ! " Mute nature mourns... | |
 | 1835 - 494 pages
...Maxwell, CB :> Principally from " The United Service Journal." No. XXVII. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Esg. " Call it not vain ! they do not err Who say that when a poet dies Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." " No man was ever more... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...necessary a part of wisdom to know what to believe, as what to reject. MRS. MONTAGU. CALL it not rain :—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. WALTER SCOTT. TRUE Dignity is his whose tranquil mind Virtue has rais'd above the things below ; Who,... | |
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CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers... 
