Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream ; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Men and events of my time in India - Página 155por Sir Richard Temple - 1882 - 526 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 páginas
...hurl me from my seat. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a...woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fevered blood. Thou many-headed monster-thing, 0 who would wish to be thy king ! — XXXI. " But soft ! what messenger... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 páginas
...hurl me from my seat. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a...Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster-thing, 0 who would wish to be thy king !— XXXI. " But soft!... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 páginas
...hurl me from my seat. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a...Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster-thing, 0 who would wish to be thy king ! — XXXI. " But soft... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 páginas
...hurl me from my seat. W'ho o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a...Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster-thing, Oli ! who would wish to be thy king ? — XXXI. •... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 280 páginas
...would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And tickle as a changeful dream ; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as frenzy's fevered blood. Thou many-headed monster-thing O who would wish o be thy king '.— XXXI. ' But soft ! what messenger... | |
| Edmund Spencer - 1836 - 394 páginas
...with the poet — " Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain, — Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a...Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as frenzy's fever'd Wood ; Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh ! who would wish to he thy king ?" Perhaps the inhabitants... | |
| Edmund Spencer - 1836 - 826 páginas
...to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain, — Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle aa a changeful dream ; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as frenzy's fever'd hlood ; Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh ! who would wish to be thy king ?" Perhaps the inhabitants... | |
| Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 páginas
...among. l knew thee vain, as ever gaze upon the mirror flung. LEL LOBELtA CATALPA TEEE— continued. Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream. Scott's Lady of tke Lake. Our last, was even as our first — light, volatile and vain ; The dance... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1838 - 268 páginas
...could hurl me from my seat. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a...as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fevered hlood. Thou many-headed monster-thing, O who would wish to he thy king ' — XXXI. " But soft ! what... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 páginas
...hurl me from my seat. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a...Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's feverd blood, Thou many-headed monster-thing, O who would wish to be thy king ! — XXXI. " But soft... | |
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