 No, Stranger, none; And hear, — to fire thy flagging zeal, — The Saxon cause rests on thy steel; For thus spoke Fate, by prophet bred Between the living and the dead: 'Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party- conquers in the strife.  The Lady of the Lake: A Poem - Side 208af Walter Scott - 1810 - 433 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1877 - 574 sider
...first-named work \a referred to by MB. SOLLT. E»' ST 365.] DOES Walter Scott, in his lines, — " For thus spoke Fate, by prophet bred Between the living and the dead : ' Who spills the foremost foeman'a life, His party conquers in the strife," " allude to a superstition believed in to any extenl... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 sider
...well deserved : 25 Can nought but blood our feud * atone ? Are there no means?" "No, Stranger, none ! And hear, — to fire thy flagging * zeal, — The Saxon cause rests on thy steel ; 126 127 30 For thus spoke Fate,* by prophet * bred Between the living and the dead : ' Who spills... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 280 sider
...deserved : — Can nought but blood our feud atone ? Are there no means?" — "No, Stranger, none! And hear, — to fire thy flagging zeal, — The Saxon...said, " The riddle is already read. Seek yonder brake beneath the cliffThere lies Red Murdoch, stark and stiff. Thus Fate has solved her prophecy ; Then... | |
 | Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1878 - 322 sider
...the God of Battles as shown by the fate of its champion, but, in this case, it was true that — " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers in the strife." After a sharp, but brief, skirmish, the Kashgarian army withdrew in confusion, and the following day... | |
 | Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1878 - 394 sider
...of the God of Battles as shown by the fate of its champion, but, in this case, it was true that— " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers in the strife." After a sharp, but brief, skirmish, the Kashgarian army withdrew in confusion, and the following day... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 378 sider
...tearing each other, the jackal had run off into the jungle with the prey. (8) Its enlargement (if any). " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers in the strife." " If I suffer causeless wrong, Is then my selfish rage so strong, My sense of public weal so low, That... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 330 sider
...well deserved : Can nought but blood our feud atone ? Are there no means?'— 'No, stranger, none ! And hear— to fire thy flagging zeal— The Saxon...said, ' The riddle is already read. Seek yonder brake beneath the cliff — There lies Red Murdoch, stark and stiff. Thus Fate hath solved her prophecy/... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 240 sider
...well deserved. Can naught but blood our feud atone ? Are there no means?" — "No, stranger, none! And hear — to fire thy flagging zeal — The Saxon...strife." " — "Then, by my word," the Saxon said, " Thy riddle is already read. Seek yonder brake beneath the cliff — There lies Red Murdoch, stark... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 sider
...well deserved. Can naught but blood our feud atone ? Are there no means?" — "No, stranger, none! And hear — to fire thy flagging zeal — The Saxon...strife.' " — " Then, by my word," the Saxon said, " Thy riddle is already read. Seek yonder brake beneath the cliff — There lies Red Murdoch, stark... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 sider
...well deserved. Can naught but blood our feud atone ? Are there no means ?" — " No, stranger, none ! And hear — to fire thy flagging zeal — The Saxon...strife.' " — " Then, by my word," the Saxon said, " Thy riddle is already read. Seek yonder brake beneath the cliff — There lies Red Murdoch, stark... | |
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