 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,...  The Lands of Scott - Side 70af James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1880 - 508 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1894 - 576 sider
...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...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 sider
...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 The warrior's measured...cloud of Saxon 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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 sider
...thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warriors' measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bonne for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 sider
...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...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 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 sider
...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...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 - 228 sider
...village." — Monastery, Vol. III. eh. 12. " Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured...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 sider
...village." — Monastery, Vol. III. ch. 12. " Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured...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... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 sider
...thicket streams, Or do they flash on 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 comes winding far ! * * * * * No cymbal clashed, no clarion rang, Still were the pipe and drum ; Save heavy tread, and... | |
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