 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...Impassioned radical and median stress:" " High' pitch :" Varied "slides:" Extremely short pauses.) " One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, — When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near ; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, — So light... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...plume, And the bride-maidens whisper'd, " 'Twere better by far To have match'd our fair cousin with young Lochinvar ! " One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reach'd the hall-door, and the charger stood near: So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So... | |
 | 1895 - 666 pages
...theme. Mr. Finnimore chooses for his picture the couplet describing the crisis of the narrative : — So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the eaddle before her he sprung I — and he portrays a stately steed and two handsomeyoung people. Neither... | |
 | 1886 - 574 pages
...HALLEK. ODD BLUNDER.— I find the following in the poetical volume of Seeley's series of school-books : So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle behind her he sprung. Young Lochinv.'ir's charger must have been of a very unusual frame to have room... | |
 | 1909 - 740 pages
...LOCHINVAK ' (10 S. xii. 268, 336). — What is wrong with Sir Walter's lines ? — So light tu tlie croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before lier lie sprung. Lochinvar, of course, reached the saddle by throwing his leg over the horse's neck,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...young Lochinты-!' One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, "When they reached the hall door, to the neighbouring poor, And strangers 1 • She is won ! we are gone, отег bank, bush, and scaur ; They'll hare fleet steeds that follow... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...bride-maidens whispered, " 'T were better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young LochJavar." One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, where the charger stood near ; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to... | |
 | N. Leitch - 1851 - 234 pages
...plume, And the bride-maidens whisper'd, " "IWere better by far To have match 'd our fair cousin with young Lochinvar!" One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reach 'd the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1852 - 462 pages
...there. CHAPTER XII. ILL-LUCK. " One touch to her hand, anil one word in her ear, When they reach'd the hall-door, and the charger stood near ; So light...swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung I ' She is won 1 we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur ; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,'... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...plume ; And the bridemaidens whispered, " ' Twere better, by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar." One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near ; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to... | |
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That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar. 
