 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 200 pages
...bended bows; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the...The rushes and the willow wand Are bristling into ax and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 pages
...hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew,' From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse4 and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprang up at once the 'lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken6 bush sends... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 208 pages
...wish Ï " — He whistled shrill, And he was answer'd from the hill: Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through...below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe: From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are... | |
 | Mary Frances Hyde - 1895 - 246 pages
...we." — WORDSWORTH. 4. Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. — EMERSON. 5. On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe. —SCOTT. 6. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too. — COLERIDGE. 7. The world... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 482 pages
...wish!" — He whistled shrill. And he was answered from the hill; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through...below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are... | |
 | Mary Frances Hyde - 1896 - 296 pages
...whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill; Wild as the scream of the curlew, /wa« crag /b crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath,...bended bows; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung ilp at once the lurking foe; J<fom shingles gray their lances start, yhe bracken bush sends forth the... | |
 | Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald - 1897 - 420 pages
...oppose our landing. It was a most literal rendering of Scott's scene in ' The Lady of the Lake ' : ' On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1898 - 614 pages
...thy wish!" He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill; Wild as the scream of the curlieu, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through...below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are... | |
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Have, then, thy wish!"— he whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above,... 
