 Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals mickle woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shuddered, and their pulse beat low; And as they looked, they found...  The R.I. Schoolmaster - Page 1371866Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shudder'd, and their pulse beat low ; And as they look'd, they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view. So have I seen (who has not may conceive) A lifeless phantom near a garden placed, So doth it wanton... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 360 pages
...the simple vassals mickle woe; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, And as they look'd, they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view." * SHENSTONE. IN the early days of Rome, the lictors had their fasces made of the branches of this tree,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals mickle woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew But their limbs shuddered, and their pulse...beat low ; And as they looked they found their horror grow, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view." He represents the dame, too, as wielding in... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shudder'd, and their pulse beat low ; And, as they look'd, they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view. So have I seen (who has not may conceive) A lifeless phantom near a garden placed, So doth it wanton... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...curl the leaves that blow, But their limbs shudcler'd and their pulse beat low, And as they look'd they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view. The system of corporal punishment in schools is now much relaxed. It can never, indeed, be entirely... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shudder'd, and their pulse beat low; And as they look'd they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view. So have I seen (who has not may conceive), A lifeless phantom near a garden placed ; So doth it wanton... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals micklo woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves roda, and tingled at the view. Near to this dome is found a patch PO green, On which the tribe their... | |
 | 1830 - 634 pages
...a glance of the " Birchen tree" upon UK juvenile culprits : " For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shuddered, and their pulse beat low; And as they looked they found I heir horror grow, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view." Shrub upright, (one or two feet... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shudder'd and their pulse beat low, And as they look'd they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view. IV. So have I seen (who has not may conceive) A lifeless phantom near a carden placed, So doth it wanton... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And work the simple vassals mickle For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limlis shuddered, and their pulse beat low ; And as they looked they found their horror grow, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view. Near to this dome is found a patch so green,... | |
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