 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 420 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, Moek'd our enchanted steps, for all was fairy ground. SAICUEL JOHNSON BY peep of day Quentin Durward... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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 all was fairy ground." We have now surely lost much of the delay and much of the rapidity.... | |
 | Oxford essays - 1855
...ground. Johnson's parody is — While many a merry tale and many a song Cheered the rough road, we wished the rough road long : The rough road then, returning in a round, Mocked our impatient steps— for all was fairy ground. It is obvious to remark that ' merry' has a... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 642 pages
...CHAPTER XVIII. PALMISTRY. When many a merry tale and many a long Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long. The rough road, then, returning in a round, Hock'd our enchanted steps, for all was fairy ground. Samuel Johnton. BY peep of day Queqtin Durward... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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 bur impatient steps, for all was fairy ground; we have now surely lost much of the delay, and much... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 438 pages
...THE EIGHTEENTH 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 - 1864 - 360 pages
...CHAPTER XVIII. 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 - 1871 - 450 pages
...years hence." CHAPTER FOURTH. 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. DR. JOHNSON. "IT was about the year of redemption... | |
 | John Conington - 1872 - 624 pages
...ground. Johnson's parody is — While many a merry tale and many a song Cheered the rough road, we wished the rough road long : The rough road then, returning in a round, Mocked our impatient steps — for all was fairy ground. It is obvious to remark that ' merry ' has... | |
 | John Conington - 1872 - 622 pages
...ground. Johnson's parody is — While many a merry tale and many a song Cheered the rough road, we wished the rough road long : The rough road then, returning in a round, Mocked our impatient steps — for all was fairy ground. It is obvious to remark that ' merry ' has... | |
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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. 
