| 1810 - 538 pages
...beck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...beck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1810 - 462 pages
...beck and will, All silent there they stood and still; Like the loose crags whose threatening mass lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upo;; the mountain side they hung. The' mountaineer cast glance of pride Along- Benledi's living side,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could nrge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
| 1811 - 868 pages
...aud will, All silent the.ie thi'y aloud and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their hcadliuiir p:ifsage eionn the. rcrge, With step and we..pon lui ward Цинк, Upon the mountain ti/it;... | |
| 1822 - 780 pages
...that hung, as " one of their own poets hath said," " Like the loose crag*, whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass ; As if an infant's...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge." The air ringing with glorious clamour of bugle and trumpet ; — troops moving backwards and forwards... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...and will, All silent there they stood, and still ; Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...passage down the verge ; With step and weapon forward Hung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's toueh could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fix'd... | |
| David Stewart - 1822 - 552 pages
...his ninety-fifth year, and in perfect possession of all his faculties, was present at this affray. On right, on left, above, below,, Sprung up at once...forward flung, Upon the mountains' sides they hung." * Yet the strength of this attachment and zeal did not extinguish the proper sense of independence.... | |
| David Stewart - 1822 - 658 pages
...for strife. That whittle garrisoned the glen With full four hundred fighting men, As if the i awning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching...forward flung, Upon the mountains' sides they hung." * Yet the strength of this attachment and zeal did not extinguish the proper sense of independence.... | |
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