 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1998 - 450 страници
...discipline of the peculiar branch of service to which they belonged. CHAPTER XXVIII "His back ngainst a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before;— 'Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From iis firm base as soon as I!' " Scorr, THE LADY OF THE LAKE, Vx232-35. OUR BATTLE will be told with... | |
 | James Alan Marten - 1998 - 310 страници
...directions, except one bold, black-eyed girl, who defiantly placed herself against a wall, saying, "Come one, come all, this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I! Come on, boys, I ain't afraid of you!" "A fort! a fort to take!" shouted the boys. "Fire!" said the... | |
 | Michael West - 2000 - 546 страници
...meanwhile you have got your feet planted upon the rock, with the rock also at your back, and . . . can say, "Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Such, uttered or not, is the strength of your sentence. Sentences in which there is no strain. (W.... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 844 страници
...<Great cheering. > Let them come. In the language of the illustrious bard, I say let them come — "Come one, come all, this rock shall fly, From its firm base as soon as I."12 <Loud and continued applause. > I stood by my country and my country's interest in more perilous... | |
 | Gerald Sweeney - 2001 - 158 страници
...from school came upon him holding off a group of teasing boys, reciting the lines for her to report "Come one, come all, this rock shall fly,/ "From its firm base, as soon as I." When at an unspecified young age he fell from his pony into a muddy ditch, he had at the ready for... | |
 | Russell Kirk - 2001 - 580 страници
...worst, we have the satisfaction of the heroic attitude of the Sassenach confronting Roderick Dhu's crew Come one, come all; this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I! The manuscript was in beautiful shape, and could have been sent out for typesetting as it had come... | |
 | Ulla E. Dydo, William Rice - 704 страници
...such as Longfellow's "They left footsteps in the sands of time" (331; "A Psalm of Life") or Scott's "Come one come all this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I" (316, 366; "The Lady of the Lake," canto 5, stanza 10). That is by the way so to speak do they hear... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 страници
...whole place bristled with armed men. Fitz-James stood with his back against a rock, and cried, “ Come one, come all, this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.” Roderick, charmed with his daring, waved his hand, and all the band disappeared as mysteriously as... | |
 | Russell Kirk - 2004 - 444 страници
...a sermon to finish: put the nonsense out of your head. Should he blast the New Breed one more time? Come one. come all, this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I... Yes: give them a dose of Newman, whom they never had read, actually. He took up his copy of Newman's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2005 - 277 страници
...against a. rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before: "Come one, come all! this rock shall fly 235 From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick marked— and in Ms eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of... | |
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His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. 
