 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...  The Lady of the Lake: A Poem - Page 124by Walter Scott - 1826 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1810 - 538 pages
...leader's 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...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
...leader's 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...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
...leader's 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...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,... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...leader's beck 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;... | |
 | 1811 - 872 pages
...infant's touch could urge Their headlunx passage down thr verge, With step and weapon forward tlung. Upon the mountain side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Be nledi's living side, Then fiVd bis ijye and sable brow Full on FitE-.Tumrs — ' How say'st thon... | |
 | 1822 - 780 pages
...multitude, 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...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
...leader's heck 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...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
...and will, All silent then they stood, and still, Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass, Long tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...verge; With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountains' sides they hung." * Yet the strength of this attachment and zeal did not extinguish the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...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 his eye and sable brow Full on Fitz- James — " How say'st thou now ? These are Clan-Alpine's... | |
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