 | 1842 - 480 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The Border slogan rent the sky! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd mid the foes. No longer Blount the sight could bear: — " By heaven, and all its saints, I... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced...— now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As beuds the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sai], It wavered miothe foes.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear I will not see it... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced- — forced...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By heaven, and all its saints ! I swear, I will not see it... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...yell. The Border slogan rent the sky : A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blowa ; Advanced — forced back — now low, now high. The...the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, sbrouds, und sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view couUl bear : " By heaven, and... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew A Home! a Gordon! was the cry; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced — forced...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : — " By heaven, and all its saints, I swear, I will not see... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border slogan rent the sky! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bears — "By heaven, and all its saints! I swear, I will not see it... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...sky! A Home ! a Gordon! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced,—forced back,—now low, now high. The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends...rigging, shrouds, and sail, •It wavered 'mid the foes. Then Eustace mounted too ;—yet staid, As loth to leave the helpless maid, When, fast as shaft can... | |
 | Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1852 - 192 pages
...lightning, and torn up by the roots by a high wind. * See the lines in Scott's Marmion, canto vi. : — ' The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.' 4 ' . ADJECTIVES. CIVIL, POLITE, COURTEOUS, POLISHED, WELL-BKED. Civility is now something less than... | |
 | Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1852 - 182 pages
...lightning, and torn up by the roots by a high wind. * See the lines in Scott's Marmion, canto vi. : — ' The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.' ADJECTIVES. CIVIL, POLITE, COURTEOUS, POLISHED, WELL-BRED. Civility is now something less than politeness... | |
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The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,... 
