 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...cause rests on thy steel ; For thus spoke Fate by prophet bred Between the living and the dead ; " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers...beneath the cliff, — There lies Red Murdoch, stark and stifiv Thus Fate has solved her prophecy, Then yield to Fate, and not to me. To James, at Stirling,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...cause rests on thy steel ; For thus spoke Fate by prophet bred Between the living and the dead ; ' Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers...said, " The riddle is already read. Seek yonder brake oeneath the cliff,— There lies Red Murdoch, stark and stiff. Thus Fate has solved her prophecy, Then... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...cause rests on thy steel ; For thus spoke Fate hy prophet hred Between the living and the dead ; " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers in the strife." — " Then, hy my word," the Saxon said, " The riddle is already read. Seek yonder hrake heneath the cliffThere... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...cause rests on thy steel; For thus spoke Fate, by prophet bred Between the living and the dead ; " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, , His party...beneath the cliff,— There lies Red Murdoch, stark and stift. Thus Fate has solved her prophecy, Then yield to Fate, and not to me. To James, at Stirling,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 280 pages
...cause rests on thy steel ; For thus spoke Fate by prophet bred Between the living and the dead ; " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers...cliff, — There lies Red Murdoch, stark and stiff. Tims Fate has solved her prophecy, Then yield to Fate, and not to me. To James, at Stirling, let us... | |
 | 1833 - 544 pages
...augury ; but alas ! it did not contain even the dubious encouragement of the poetical authority — " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers in the strife." An intense anxiety seemed to pervade the members ; it was evident that a favourable interpretation... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...cause rests on thy steel ; For thus spoke Fate, by prophet bred Between the living and the dead : — ' Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers...yonder brake beneath the cliff, — There lies red Murdock, stark and stiff. Thus fate has solved her prophecy, Then yield to fate, and not to me. To... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 pages
...cause rests on thy steel ; For thus spoke Fate bv prophet hred Between the living and the dead ; ' Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers...strife.' " — " Then, by my word," the Saxon said, " Thy riddle is already read. Seek yonder brake beneath the cliff, — There lies Red Murdoch stark... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1838 - 268 pages
...Saxon cause rests on thy steel; For thus spoke Fate hy prophet bred Between the living and the dead ; ' Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers in the strife.' " — " Then, hy my word," the Saxon said, " The riddle is already read. Seek yonder hrake heneath the cliff, —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...thus spoke Fate, by prophet bred Between the living and the dead ; ' Who spills the foremost foeman 's ght in all the nortli, That dare the adventure follow...perilous to knightly worth, In the valley of St. J He said By God his face, we twa The flight on us shall samcn * ta." * At tbe same time or together.... | |
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And hear— to fire thy flagging zeal— The Saxon cause rests on thy steel ; For thus spoke Fate, by prophet bred Between the living and the dead ; ' Who spills the foremost foeman's life His party conquers in the strife. 
