 | 1894 - 576 страници
...swathes as with a purple shroud Benledi's distant hill. • Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground...flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? ' Xature is mute, motionless and gloomy in expectation of the coming strife. How finely, too, is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 страници
...thunder cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud, XV. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 страници
...swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground...flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams i — I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war,... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 страници
...it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground 134 Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the...spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 страници
...swathes, as with a purple shroud; Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground...warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glanc* That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lane* The sun's retiring heams ?... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 страници
...swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground...of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! 6 To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 страници
...centre of the village.' — Monastery, Vol. III. ch. 12. " Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground...spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 страници
...centre of the village." — Monastery, Vol. III. ch. 12. " Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground...thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance I The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wavo o'«r... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 страници
...swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance... | |
 | Alexander Laing - 1828 - 492 страници
...feel, For their chief's crimes, avenging steel. J see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's argent star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far. Down, down, cried Mar, your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe ! Like reed before the tempest's... | |
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That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the thicket streams,... 
