 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 Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 209by Walter Scott - 1857Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1853 - 404 pages
...'Watching their leader's beek and will,2 All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose erags whoso threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's tonch conld nrge Their headlong passage down the verge, 1 MS. — And each lone tnft of broom gives... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threatening ina-s 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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 788 pages
...will, All eilen: there they stood and still. Like the loose crngs whose thrent'ning matt Lay tott'ring o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could...step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side ihey hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi'e living side ; Then fix'd his eye ana... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 pages
...threatening mass .'^ -. \V Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, *• i ;r ' rj ••R?. '-P' 4 As il an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 pages
...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...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.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...bill 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...passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward Dung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...defianee pours, And shook his gauntlet at the towers. Seott's Marmion. The mountaineer east glanee 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 warriors true ; And, Saton, — I am Roderie Dlnf!"... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...defianee pours, And shook his gauntlet at the towers. Seott's Маrvaт. The mountaineer east glanee 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 warriors true ; • And, Saxon, —... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1855 - 440 pages
...piled one above another, some of which seemed so balanced upon their exalted and narrow pedestals, " As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge." A light and feathery fringe of dwarfish trees and varieties of gigantic cacti adorned the sides and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...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...fix'd his eye and sable brow Full on Fitz-James— " How say'st thou now ? These are Clan-Alpine's warriors true ; And, Saxon,— I am Roderick Dhu !"... | |
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