 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
 | 1866 - 408 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 Ben-ledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 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 couid urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 sider
...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 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 livlngside, Then fixed... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 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... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1869 - 336 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...they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Ben Ledi's living side, Then fixed his eye and sable brow Full on Fitz-James : " How sayest thou now... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 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 glace of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 sider
...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 monntain-side they hung. The monntaineer cast glance of prido Along Beuledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 234 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... | |
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