 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1824 - 518 pàgines
...beggar's bantlings, all the rest of my life." So saying, he retired to change his apparel. CHAP. XIII. Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze ; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the .shelves.— The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 878 pàgines
...pans, and beggar's bantlings, all the rest of my life." So saying, he retired to change his apparel. Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze ; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves. — The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 548 pàgines
...beggar's bantlings, all the rest of my life." So saying, he retired to change his apparel. CHAPTER XXII. Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm , The very wind that wafls us towards the port May dash us on the shelves. —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pàgines
...medicines ; We cannot walk, or sit, or ride, or travel, But Death is by to seize us when he lists. Abbot. Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze ; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us toward the port May dash us on the shelves. — The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 664 pàgines
...beggar's bantlings, all the rest of my life." So saying, he retired to change his apparel. CHAPTER V. Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze ; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves. — The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pàgines
...beer ; And where, in either sense, the cockney-put May, if he pleases, get confounded cut. CHAP. XXII. Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze ; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves. — The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pàgines
...cockney-put May, if he pleases, get confounded cut. On the Sign of an Alehouse kept by a Barber. CHAP. XXII. Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze ; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves. — The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pàgines
...he pleases, get confounded cut. On the Sign of an Alehouse kept by a Barber. (17.) — CHAP. XXII. Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze ; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves. — The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 364 pàgines
...beggar's bantlings, all the rest of my life." So saying, he retired to change his apparel. CHAPTEE XXII. Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze ; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves. — The... | |
 | Voices - 1866 - 234 pàgines
...asleep with Jonas, while a tempest is rattling about our ears, is not submission, but stupidity. South. Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze...: But, if the Pilot slumbers at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the rocks. The Steersman's part is vigilance, Blow... | |
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves. The steersman's part is vigilance, Blow it or rough or smooth. Old Play. 
