 GOD prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.  Old Nursery songs, stories, and ballads - Page 3by Old nursery songs - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Hannah More - Children - 1830 - 408 pages
...and queens ; Resolv'd, in pity to this polish'd age, To drive these ballad heroes from the stage. " To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Percy...may rue, that is unborn, The hunting of that day." A pretty basis, truly, for a modern play! What ! shall a scribbling, senseless woman dare To your refinements... | |
 | Spectator - 1832 - 282 pages
...following quotations. What can be greater than either the thought or the expression in that stanza, ' To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took...child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day!' This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity, not only on those... | |
 | Charles Heath - 348 pages
...riveted on an almost worn-out volume of ancient ballads. Of itself, it opened at Chevy Chase — " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did...in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take." " How perfectly," thought he, " does this set forth the whole spirit of the age — its love of war... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - English literature - 1833 - 250 pages
...became riveted on an almost wornout volume of ancient ballads. Of itself, it opened at Chevy Chase— " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did...in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take." " How perfectly," thought he, " does this set forth the whole spirit of the age — its love of war... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1833 - 474 pages
...Cheviot within dayes thre, In the mauger of doughty Dougles, And all that ever with him be," Becomes, " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did...in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take," &c. From this, and other examples of the same kind, of which many might be quoted, we must often expect... | |
 | Gift books - 1833 - 320 pages
...became riveted on an almost worn-out volume of ancient ballads. Of itself, it opened at Chevy Chase — "The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did...in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take." " How perfectly," thought he, " does this set forth the whole spirit of the age — its love of war... | |
 | Fiction - 1833 - 588 pages
...became riveted on an almost worn-out volume of ancient ballad«. Of itself, it opened al Chevy Chase : " The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make. His pleasure in Ihe Scottish woods Three summer days to take." "How perfectly," thought he, "does this set forth the... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 508 pages
...and queens ; Resolv'd, in pity to this polish'd age, To drive these ballad-heroes from the stage. " To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Percy...may rue, that is unborn, The hunting of that day." A pretty basis, truly, for a modern play ! What ! shall a scribbling, senseless woman dare To your... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...to exhibit the contrasts in stjle iai language, already suggested: — Later Version. The stout Erie of Northumberland, A vow to God did make. His pleasure in the Scottish woods, Three summers days to take ; The cheefest harts in Chevy-chace To kill and lieare away. These lydings to... | |
 | 1836 - 304 pages
...riveted on an almost worn-out volume of ancient ballads. Of itself, it opened at Chevy Chase — " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did...in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take." "How perfectly," thought he, "does this set forth the whole spirit of the age — its love of war and... | |
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