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" That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening... "
Sketches of the Character, Institutions, and Customs of the Highlanders of ... - Page 65
by David Stewart - 1885 - 396 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 16

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...
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The Lady of the Lake: A Poem

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...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 4

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,...
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The Lady of the Lake: A Poem

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...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

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;...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 12

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...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 4

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...
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The poetical works of Walter Scott, Volume 6

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...
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Sketches of the character, manners, and present state of the ..., Volume 1

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....
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Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the ..., Volume 1

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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