| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pagini
...flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! A Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the sight could bear :— " By heaven, and all its saints,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 528 pagini
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the' battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : •• By Heaven, and all its saints... | |
| James Denniston - 1825 - 326 pagini
....;-..,; "'".... ' • " CHAP. IIL The border slogan rent the sky, A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cryLoud were the clanging blows : Advanced— forced back...low — now high, The pennon sunk and rose— . As bent the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.... | |
| James Denniston - 1825 - 324 pagini
...: Advanced— forced; back — naw low— now high, The pennon sunk and roseAs bent the bark's matt in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. SCOTT. THE summer had commenced, and the repairs and improvements suggested in and about the castle... | |
| James Denniston - 1825 - 314 pagini
...summoned her to the ha^U CHAP. III. The border slogan rent the sky, A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cryLoud were the clanging blows : Advanced— forced back — now low— now high, The pennon sunk and roseAs bent the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It watered 'mid... | |
| James Denniston - 1825 - 314 pagini
...slogan rent the sky, J: . .., . , u, A Home ! a Gordon f was the cry— I/Hid were the clanging bfottg : Advanced — forced back— now low — now high , The pennon sunk and rose— ..... . ' As bent the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are riggirigi shrouds, and sail, It u avi'red 'mid the... | |
| 1829 - 476 pagini
...animating description of the struggle for the pennon of the fallen hero, which he says, is The pennon Bunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, «hrouda and nil, Advanced,—farced back, now low, now high, I will not see It lost! Filz-Eustace,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pagini
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky '. A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced,— forced hack,— now low, now high, Tlie pennon sunk and rose; A« bends the bark's mast in the gale. When... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 pagini
...load of the insects, and uttering *a wild and faint crow : Advanced, forced buck, now high, now low. The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast,...When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered raid the foes. The moment hail now arrived, when it was to be definitely settled, whether the undisputed... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pagini
...sky: A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced,—forced back,—now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose : As bends...the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, I will not see it lost! Fitz-Eustace, you with Lady Clare May bid your beads, and patter prayer, It... | |
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