...war's wild roar, Nor think of Ellen Douglas more ; But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove — By firm resolve to conquer love ! Eve finds the Chief, like restless ghost, Still hovering near his treasure...

...war's wild roar, Nor think of Ellen Douglas more ; But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove — By firm resolve to conquer love ! Eve finds the Chief, like restless ghost, Still hovering near his treasure...

...war's wild roar, Nor think of Ellen Douglas more; But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove— By firm resolve to conquer love ! Eve finds the Chief, like restless ghost, Still hovering near his treasure...

...war's wild roar, Noi think of Ellen Douglas more ; But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove — By firm resolve to conquer love ! SCOTT. I AGHEE with the poet in the praise he has bestowed on the welcome...

...that he had ever seen Maria del Rosario ; — " But he who stems a stream with sand, " And fetters flame with flaxen band, " Has yet a harder task to prove, — " By firm resolve to conquer love !" Let those who have studied to forget any object, — be it what it...

...and even loved unworthily, will readily admit — " That he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove — By firm resolve to conquer love !" Rather let us peep into the sleeping-chamber of captain Beresford,...

...the language of your own exquisite poet, 1 answer — ' He who items a stream with land, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove, By (ii in resolve to conquer love.' stances — I floated down the stream, and cherished a sweet delusive...

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...war's wild roar,1 Nor think of Ellen Douglas more ; But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters pride restrain'd,3 And the mean burgher's joys disdain'd ; firm resolve to conquer love ! Eve finds the Chief, like restless ghost, Still hovering near his treasure...

...the Press,' — come fill your glasses." CHAPTER III. He who stems the stream with aand, Or fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove, — By stern resolve to conquer love ! WALTER SCOTT. IN a few days Arbridge received the expected letter from his uncle. Its contents were...