 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 338 sider
...think, The eyelid scarce had time to u ink, While on the King like flash of flame, Spnrred to fnll speed the war-horse came ! The partridge may the falcon mock, If that slight palfrey stand the shock — Bnt, swerving from the Knight's career, Jnst as they met, Brnce shnnned the spear. Onward the haffled... | |
 | 1825 - 448 sider
...time to think, The eye-lid scarce had time to wink, While on the King, like flash of flame, Spurred to full speed the war-horse came ! The partridge may...from the Knight's career, Just as they met, Bruce shunned the spear. Onward the baffled warrior bore His course — but soon his course was o'er! —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sider
...hardly time to think, The eye-lid scarce had unit: to wink, While on the kiug, like (lash of tlamc, Spurr'd to full speed the war-horse came! The partridge...from the knight's career, Just as they met, Bruce shunu'd the &pear. Onward the hafllcd warrior bore IIU course — but soon his course was o'er ! —... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1840 - 286 sider
...King, like flash of flame, Spurr'd to full speed the war-horse came ! The partridge may the faleon mock, If that slight palfrey stand the shock — But,...Knight's career, Just as they met, Bruce shunn'd the spear.1 Onward the haffled warrior hore His course — hut soon his course was o'er ! — High in his... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 sider
...dazzled was each gazing eye — The heart had hardly time to think, The eyelid scarce had time to wink,4 While on the King, like flash of flame, Spurr'd to...career, Just as they met, Bruce shunn'd the spear. A Onward the baffled warrior ln>ro His course — but soon his course was o'er ! — High in his stirrups... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 sider
...high, And dazzled was each gazing eye.— The heart had hardly time to think, The eye-lid scarcely time to wink, While on the King, like flash of flame,...swerving from the knight's career, Just as they met Brace shunn'd the spear ; large stones, erected in the lower extremity of a lawn which fronts a villa... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 sider
...time to think, The eye-lid scarce had time to wink, While on the king, like flash of flame, Spurred to full speed the war-horse came! The partridge may...from the knight's career, Just as they met, Bruce shunned the spear. Onward the baffled warrior bore His course—but soon his course was o'er! High... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 sider
...— Each breast beat high, And dazzled was each gazing eye — The heart had hardly time to shrink, The eye-lid scarce had time to wink, While on the...Just as they met, Bruce shunn'd the spear. Onward the bafHed warrior bore His course — but soon his course was o'er ! High in his stirrups stood the king,... | |
 | 1897 - 1138 sider
...like a being all the world can scan, Refresh the inner, clothe the outer, man. Du V. PAYEN-РАШЕ. The partridge may the falcon mock If that slight palfrey stand the shock. WHC "SITTING BODKIN." (8lb S. li. 267, 354.) Dr. Murray's definition of bodkin in this phrase as "a... | |
 | 1849 - 508 sider
...full speed, the war horse came.— The partridge may the falcon mock, If that slight palfrey stand ihe shock ; But swerving from the knight's career, Just as they met Bruce shunned the spear. Onward the baffled warrior l>ore His course — but soon his course was o'er I High... | |
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As motionless as rocks, that bide The wrath of the advancing tide, The Bruce stood fast. Each breast beat high, And dazzled was each gazing eye. The heart had hardly time to think, The eyelid scarce had time to wink, While on the King, like flash of flame,... 
