 | Calvin Colton - Great Britain - 1836 - 372 pages
...highlands, thrown over the Braan, about a mile above the scene just described, where the river — " Comes roaring and grumbling, And leaping and tumbling, And hopping and skipping, And foaming and drippmg, And struggling and tolling, And bubbling and boiling, And beating and jumping, And bellowing... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, William Maltby - Classicists - 1856 - 372 pages
...Such was his love of knowledge ! He was fond of repeating these lines, and wrote them out for me ; " What* fools are mankind, And how strangely inclin'd,...For, good people, after all, What is a water-fall 1 It comes roaring and grumbling, And leaping and tumbling, And hopping and skipping, And foaming and... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Table-talk - 1856 - 434 pages
...Such was his love of knowledge ! He was fond of repeating these lines, and wrote them out for me ; " What * fools are mankind, And how strangely inclin'd,...chaises, By day and by dark, To the falls of Lanark I For, good people, after all, What is a water-fall ? It comes roaring and grumbling, And leaping and... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 362 pages
...Such was his love of knowledge ! He was fond of repeating these lines, and wrote them out for me ; " What * fools are mankind, And how strangely inclin'd,...from all places With horses and chaises, By day and hy dark, To the falls of Lanark ! For, good people, after all, What is a water-fall ? It comes roaring... | |
 | Walter White - Yorkshire (England) - 1861 - 298 pages
...went to see the falls of the Clyde sixty years ago, tells us he copied from the album at Lanark : " What fools are mankind, and how strangely inclin'd, to come from all places with horses and chaises, hy day and by dark, to the Falls of Lanark. " For good people after all, what is a waterfall ? It comes... | |
 | 1869 - 802 pages
...as follows : What fools are mankind, And how strangely inclined To come from all places With horaes and chaises, By day and by dark, To the Falls of Lanark...! For, good people, after all, What is a waterfall I (The question might receive a somewhat different reply at the present day than the poet gives.) It... | |
 | 1869 - 834 pages
...an album kept at the inn at Lanark, as follows : What fools are mankind. And how strangely inclined To come from all places With horses and chaises, By day and by dark, To the Falls of Lanark 1 For, good people, after all, What is a waterfall ! (The question might receive a somewhat different... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...suggested to Southey his playful verses on The Cataract of Lodurc: — To come from all placos Wfth horses and chaises, By day and by dark, To the Falls...For, good people, after all, What is a waterfall ? It coines roaring and grumbling, And leaping ami tumbling, And hopping and skipping, And foaming and dripping,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - England - 1887 - 452 pages
...was his love of knowledge I . He was fond of repeating these lines,* and wrote, them out for me ; " What fools are mankind, And how strangely inclin'd,...What is a water-fall? It comes roaring and grumbling, ,• I And leaping and tumbling, And hopping and skipping, And foaming and dripping ; * From Garnett's... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - England - 1887 - 394 pages
...Such was his love of knowledge ! He was fond of repeating these lines,* and wrote them out for me ; " What fools are mankind, And how strangely inclin'd,...good people, after all, What is a water-fall ? It con,es roaring and grumbling, And leaping and tumbling, And hopping and skipping, And foaming and dripping... | |
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What* fools are mankind, And how strangely inclin'd, To come from all places With horses and chaises, By day and by dark, To the falls of Lanark ! For, good people, after all, What is a water-fall... 
