And plaids and bonnets waving high, And broad-swords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in the rear. Onward they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight... The Lady of the Lake: A Poem - Side 159af Walter Scott - 1826 - 282 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 644 sider
...its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lances down I Bear back both friend and foe ! ' Like reeds before...— 'We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel1 cows the game! They come as fleet as forest deer, We'll drive them back as tame.' Bearing... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 330 sider
...Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lances down I That serried grove of lances brown At once lay levelled low; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling...cows the game ! They come as fleet as forest deer, We 'll drive them back as tame.' XvIII. ' Bearing before them, in their course, The relics of the archer... | |
| 1880 - 556 sider
...twilight wood ? Down, down, cried Mar, ' your lances down ; Bear hack both friend and foe 1' Like leeds before the tempest's frown, , That serried grove of...lay levell'd low : And, closely shouldering side to Bide, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — ' We'll quell the savage mountaineer. As their Tinchel... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 sider
...I ' Like reeds before the tempest s frown, Thai serried grove of lances brown At once lay levelled low ; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide' We 'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel* cowes the game : They come as fleet as forest... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 sider
...• ' • ' Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your...— 'We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel1 cows the game! They come as fleet as forest deer, We'll drive them back as tame.' Bearing... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 sider
...pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, 'your...— ' We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchelf cows the game ! They come as fleet as forest deer, We'll drive them back as tame.' — xvtn.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1882 - 780 sider
...pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down," cried Mar, ' your...serried grove of lances brown . At once lay levell'd low j And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — ' We'll quell the savage... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 sider
...pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? 'Down, down,' cried Mar, 'your lances...frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay levelled low ; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide.— — ' We'll... | |
| Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 sider
...pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your...frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay levelled low ; And closely shouldering side by side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — ' We'll... | |
| Walter Scott - 1884 - 616 sider
...pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down, ' cried Mar, ' your...fleet as forest deer, We'll drive them back as tame.' — XVIII. " Bearing before them, in their course, The relics of the archer force, Like wave with crest... | |
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