...numberless other glorious days ; for our soldiers, in the words of our greatest bard, — " Could for itself woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight." But, gentle reader, I crave your pardon for digressing, having wandered from my subject by musing upon...

...numberless other glorious days ; for our soldiers, in the words of our greatest bard, — " Could for itself woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight." But, gentle reader, I crave your pardon for digressing, having wandered from my subject by musing upon...

...the Scandinavian Earls of Orkney, descendants of those jarls, or sen kings, * Who for itself could woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight.' And, besides the beauty and interest of the ruins, the circumstance of the Earl's Palace being surrounded...

...soothes not — pleasure cannot please. Oh ! who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide ; The exulting sense...That for itself can woo the approaching fight, And say with courage — God defend the right ! That seeks what cravens shun with more than zeal, And,...

...soothes not — pleasure cannot please. Olí, who can tell save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense...play That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? We soon lost sight of land, and we were then for some hours consigned to a monotonous view of sea...

...and these latter smile bitterly when they read or hear of " Hearts dancing in triumph o'er the water wide, The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening...That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way," and all other descriptions of the " boundless, endless, and sublime " ocean. There is, I think, a great...

...repeating the lines of Byron : — " Oh ! who call tell, save ho whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide. The exulting sense...play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? " Our cruise was to Portsmouth ; as we passed Norris Castle, the government steamer, Black Eagle,...

...Oh ! who call tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, 'Hie exulting sense — the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? " Our cruise was to Portsmouth ; as we passed Norris Castle, the government steamer, Black Eoyle,...

...frigate commanded by his father, sailing On the glad waters of the dark blue sea, and luxuriating in The exulting sense— the pulse's maddening play That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way. II. THE 8TUAKTS OF OI.EN ALPINE. SOME few years had now elapsed since Alfred Percival had been emancipated...

...toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried and danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, the exulting sense...fight, and turn what some deem danger to delight? No dread of death — if with us die our foes — • save that it seems even duller than repose :...