 The sun's retiring beams? — I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful...  The poetical works of Walter Scott - Page 77by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 358 pages
...did huntsmen, horses, and hounds, enter the .field in such splendid condition as the Marquis's : " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array :" and the work they have done, and the manner in which they have done it, justify the predictions... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial...peaceful life, One glance at their array. XVI. " Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike and spear,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ' To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial...of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. *e Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bonne for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere...peaceful life, One glance at their array ! : XVI. " Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike and spear,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial...years of peaceful life, One glance at their array. xvl. ' Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...Thai up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'T were worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. • Their light arm'd archers far and near Sartey'd the UDgled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike and spear,... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1830 - 902 pages
...age, and such a case as the Alliance, presents a part of the material. Til K FEDERAL PROCESSION. . " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life — One glance at their array !" ''THIS great procession took place at Philadelphia, for the purpose of celebrating the adoption... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 342 pages
...I am the Alexander of the Nile.' I say of these fountains, what Scott says of a martial company, ' 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Besides, do you hold as nothing his own consciousness of right?" " Why, sir," replied Mr. Brande, "... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 348 pages
...I am the Alexander of the Nile.' I say of these fountains, what Scott says of a martial company, ' "Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Besides, do you hold as nothing his own consciousness of right?" " Why, sir," replied Mr. Brande, "... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1833 - 336 pages
...and pleasure, what we could by no means constrain by any force of our arms. THE FEDERAL PROCESSION. " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life — One glance at their array !" THIS great procession took place at Philadelphia, for the purpose of celebrating the adoption of... | |
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