 That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening...  Blackwood's Magazine - Side 2631822Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 sider
...Watching their leader's beck «nd wl!'.. All silent there they stood and still Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge. With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 sider
...Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of... | |
 | Geological Society of Glasgow - 1888 - 434 sider
...narrow ridges and knolls of rock, from which it would almost seem they could easily be dislodged — " As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge." Numerous such cases are described in the Reports, and some explanation is offered of their having been... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 sider
...Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glace of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1869 - 336 sider
...Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 sider
...Watehing their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's tonch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, "With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 sider
...Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags 871 With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 234 sider
...Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 sider
...beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass 10 Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, 60 With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1872 - 218 sider
...Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of... | |
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