 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...  The Lady of the Lake: A Poem - Side 124af Walter Scott - 1826 - 282 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Roualeyn Gordon Cumming - 1856 - 434 sider
...piled one above another, some of which seemed so balanced upon their exalted and narrow pedestals, " As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge." A light and feathery fringe of dwarfish trees and varieties of gigantic cacti adorned the sides and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 sider
...beck and will, While forward step and weapon show VOL. III. 14 Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fix'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 sider
...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...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 sider
...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 touch could urge Their headlong passage down the ver^e, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 362 sider
...urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fix'd his eye and sable brow Full on Fitz-James — u How say'st thou now ? These are Clan-Alpine's... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 sider
...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...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fix'd... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 sider
...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...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed his eye and sable brow... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 sider
...stiwil, uiul still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow puss, A> if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward filing, Upon the mountain-side they him:;. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along lienledi's living... | |
 | Richard Vasey - 1858 - 132 sider
...All silent there they stood and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay tottering on the hollow pass ; As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge. SCoTT. Alas, th& death ! alas, mine Emily ! Alas, departing of our company ! Alas, mine hearte' 's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 sider
...beck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening nw«a Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
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