 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...numbers to another sense : While many a merry tale, and many a song-, Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long. The rough road then, returning in a round, Mock'd our impatient steps, for ail was fairy ground. We have now surely lost much of the delay, and much of the rapidity.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 418 pages
...DURWARD. CHAPTER I. PALMISTRY. When many a merry tale and many a song Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long. The rough road, then, returning in a round, Mock'd our enchanted steps, for all was fairy ground. SAMUEL JOHNSON. BY peep of day Quentin Durward had forsaken... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 354 pages
...years hence." CHAPTER IV. While many a merry lay and many a song Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long ; The rough road then returning in a round, Mark'd their impatient steps, for all was fairy ground. Da JOBMSOK. " IT was about the year of redemption... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...numbers to another sense : While many a merry tale, and many a none, Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd at events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity impaticnl steps, for all was fairy ground. We have now surely lost much of the delay, and much of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...to another sense : While many a merry tale, and many a song, Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd ihe rough road long. The rough road then returning in a round, Mock'd our impatient siepj, for all was fairy ground. We have now surely lost much of the delay, and much of the rapidity.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...numbers to another sense: While many a merry tale, and many a »one, Cheer'il the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long. The rough road then returning in a round, Mock' J our impatient steps, for ail was fairy around. We have now surely lost much of the delay, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 532 pages
...devotion. CHAPTER XVHI. PALMISTRY. When many a merry tale and many a song Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long. The rough road, then, returning in a round, Moek'd our enchanted steps, for alt was fairy ground. SAMUEL JOHNSON. BY peep of day Quentin Durward... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 626 pages
...his devotion. PALMISTKY. \Vhen many a merry tale and many a song Cheer'd the rough road, we wished the rough road long. The rough road, then, returning in a round, Moek'd our enchanted steps, for all was fairy ground.. SAMUEL JOHNSON. IY peep of day Q.uentin Durward... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pages
...hundreds of years hence." Wliile many a merry lay and many a song Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'il the rough road long; The rough road then returning in a round, Mark'd their impatient steps, for all was fairy ground. DR. JOHNSON. ;T was about the year of redemption... | |
 | 1888 - 558 pages
...the following lines : — While many a merry tale, and many a Bong, Cheered the rough road, we wished the rough road long* The rough road then returning in a round, Mocked our impatient etepa, for all was fairy ground. But he does not say that Pope is their author.... | |
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Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long; The rough road then, returning in a round, Mock'd our impatient steps, for all was fairy ground. 
