 But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game : For, while the dagger gleamed on high, Reeled soul and sense, reeled brain and eye.  The lady of the lake - Side 121af sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1838 - 355 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 394 sider
...he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ! — — But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late th' advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reeled... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 sider
...he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleamed aloft his dagger bright!—* — But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all loo late the advanlage came, To turn the odds of deadly game; For while the dagger gh-amed on high,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 sider
...he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then glcam'd aloft his dagger bright '. — —But of the deer. XXXII. " Nor less," he said, — " when...looking forth, I view yon Empress of the North Sit ; .heir final conflict, is conceived and written with a sublimity which has been rarelj equalled."—... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 sider
...his hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ! But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted...deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reel'd soul and sense, reel'd brain and eye. Down came the blow ! but in the heath The erring blade... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 sider
...his hand he drew. From hlood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleami d aloft his dagger hright 1 But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted...turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleamed on high. Reeled soul and sense, reeled hrain and ty«. Down came the hlow ! hut in the heath... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 sider
...his hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight. Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ! But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted...deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Recl'd soul and sense, reel'd brain and eye Down came the blow ! but in the heath The erring blade... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sider
...hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight — Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ; But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted...deadly game ; For while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reel'd soul and sense, reel'd brain and eye. Down came the blow — but in the heath The erring blade... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 sider
...his hand he drew. From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ! But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted...deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reel'd soul and sense, reel'd brain and eye Down came the blow ! but in the heath The erring blade... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1845 - 380 sider
...left wing of the enemy, many of whose battalions were seen in full flight across the plain ; but " All too late the advantage came To turn the odds of deadly game ;" for Napoleon with his Guards was already in position to support the fugitives ; the Viceroy had reached... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight — Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ; But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted...deadly game ; For while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reel'd soul and sense, reel'd brain and eye. Down came the blow — but in the heath The erring blade... | |
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