 The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna...  Lectures on the English Poets - Página 279por William Hazlitt - 1819 - 331 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 páginas
...ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the 1 1«8 ON BURNS, AND THE OLD BALLADS. [LECTURE ru. last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way....what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair ! father pressed me sair, Though my mother did mi' speak ; But she looked in my face Till my heart... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford - 1849 - 540 páginas
...Corydon and Phillis have had together, from the days of Theocritus downwards.' Mr. Hazlitt says — ' The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all...loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair ! " My father urged me sair, My mother diilna speak, But she looked in my face Till my heart was like to break."... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853 - 464 páginas
...Corydon and Phillis have had together, from the days of Theocritus downwards." Mr. Hazlitt says, " The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all...grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.' The irksomeness... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853 - 466 páginas
...Corydon and Fhillls have had together, from the days of Theocritus downwards." Mr. Hazlitt says, " The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all...what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair I ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak, But she looked in my face till my heart was like... | |
 | 1854 - 414 páginas
...Corydon and Phillis have had together, from the days of Theocritus downwards.' Mr Hazlitt says : ' The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all...for grief and despair ! " My father pressed me sair, My mother didna speak, But she looked in my face Till my heart was like to break." The irksomeness... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 páginas
...instead. In speaking of the old Scotch ballads, I need do no more than mention the name of Auld Eobiu Gray. The effect of reading this old ballad * is as...what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair! " Hy father pressed me sair, Though my mother did na" speak ; But she looked in my face Till my heart... | |
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