| Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1874 - 836 страници
...powerfully depicted in a later poem, destined perhaps to be as immortal as the Niebelungen : — ' Mightiest of all the beasts of chase That roam in...Caledon, Crashing the forest in his race, The mountain boll comes thundering on.' But the following stanza shows that Scott drew nis picture from the Chillingham... | |
| 1874 - 800 страници
...Tankerville's Northumbrian domain — the direct lineal descendants of the race of whom Scott writes : — Mightiest of all the beasts of chase That roam in woody Caledon, — or the more soft-coated and tractable cattle of commerce, the treatment is invariably specific... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 380 страници
...Was fleeter than the mountain wind. From the thick copse the roe-bucks bound, The startled red-deer scuds the plain, For the hoarse bugle's warrior sound...Bull comes thundering on. Fierce, on the hunters' quiver"d band, He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow, Spurns, with black hoof and horn, the sand, And tosses... | |
| James Logan - 1876 - 470 страници
...of " Cadzow Castle" has some admirable verses descriptive of the old Caledonian breed of cattle. " Through the huge oaks of Evandale, Whose limbs a thousand...The Mountain Bull comes thundering on. Fierce on the hunter's quiversal band He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow, Spurns, with black hoof and horn, the sand,... | |
| Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1876 - 444 страници
...powerfully depicted in a later poem, destined, perhaps, to be as immortal as the ' Niebelungen':— ' Mightiest of all the beasts of chase That roam in woody Caledon, Crushing the forest in his race, The Mountain Bull comes thundering on.' " But the following stanza... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 742 страници
...singular title of her adopted (atkw. From the thick copse the roebucks bound, The startling red-deer scuds the plain, For the hoarse bugle's warrior sound...eyes of swarthy glow, Spurns, with black hoof and horn, the sand, And tosses high his mane of snow. Aimed well, the chieftain's lance has flown ; Struggling... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 страници
...thousand years have worn, What sullen roar comes down the gale, And drowns the hunter's pealing horn 1 Mightiest of all the beasts of chase That roam in...eyes of swarthy glow, Spurns, with black hoof and horn, the sand, And tosses high his mane of snow. Aimed well, the chieftain's lance has flown; Struggling... | |
| Newton Abbot College - 1877 - 568 страници
...sullen roar comes through the gale, And drowns the hunter's pealing horn ? Mightiest of all the beast of chase, That roam in woody Caledon, Crashing the...The mountain bull comes thundering on. Fierce on the hunter's quiver'd band He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow, Spurns with black hoot and horn the sand,... | |
| Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1877 - 802 страници
...is powerfully depicted in a later poem, destined perhaps to be as immortal as the Niebelungen : — 'Mightiest of all the beasts of chase That roam in woody Caledon, Crashing the forest in his rare* The mountain bull comes thundering on.' But the following stanza shows that Scott drew bis picture... | |
| 1891 - 184 страници
...Scottish writers as abounding in the forests of Caledonia, to which Scott himself refers in his lines: "Mightiest of all the beasts of chase That roam in woody Caledon, Crushing the forest in his race, The mountain bull comes thundering on." WHITELAW ItETD. CHICAGO. Give... | |
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