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... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2631822Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...Watching their leader's beck and will,7 All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, Andrew Square. With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of... | |
| James Browne - 1843 - 546 pages
...beck nnd will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening muss Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. Lculynfthe L<:ke, Canto V. is.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...heck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening "*TTi Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass; As if an infant's...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... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...stood, and slill ; Like the loose crags, whose threat'ning mass rjay tottering o'er the hollow pass, Vs if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, iVith step and weapon forward flung, Jpon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...Watching their 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...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain- side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threat'ning mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an...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... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...will, All silent there they stood and stilL Like the loose crags whose threat'ning mass Lay tott'ring o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With st«p and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threat'ning mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an...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... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...All silent there they stood, and still : Like the loose crags whose threat'ning mass Lay tott'ring o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch 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... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 310 pages
...beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threat'ning masa Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...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... | |
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