In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime : Steady of heart, and stout of hand, As ever drove... The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Side 22af Walter Scott - 1805 - 332 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 sider
...Percy's best blood-hounds; In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, Btt he would ride them, one by one ; AJike to him was time or tide, December's snow, or July's...stout of hand, As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Rve times outlawed had he been, By England's King, and Scotland's Queen. , Spare not to spur, nor... | |
| Rolf Boldrewood - 1890 - 408 sider
...locality, and could have ridden it like William of Deloraine—of whom the Last Minstrel's Lay avers — ' Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Hoouless midnight, or matiii prime." Still, between roaring torrents, abandoned shafts, black forestarches... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1891 - 682 sider
...cross ; By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best bloodhounds. In Esk, or Llddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time, or tide, December snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime.... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 484 sider
...crews; By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Perey's best blood-hounds. In Eske, or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time, or tide, Deeember's snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide, or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime.... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1892 - 284 sider
...freedom's now and fame's. 6. Letters came last night to a dear friend of the good duke of York's. 7. Five times outlawed had he been By England's king and Scotland's queen. 8. I knew myself only as his, his daughter, his the mighty. 9. Whose house is next to Mason and King's... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1892 - 272 sider
...freedom's now and fame's. 6. Letters came last night to a dear friend of the good duke of York's. 7. Five times outlawed had he been By England's king and Scotland's queen. 8. I knew myself only as his, his daughter, his the mighty. 9. Whose house is next to Mason and King's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1894 - 208 sider
...cross; By wily turns, by desperate bounds, H ad baffled Percy's best blood-hounds;12 In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one;...hand, As ever drove prey from Cumberland; Five times outlaw'd had he been, By England's King, and Scotland's Queen. xxn. " Sir William of Deloraine, good... | |
| Nicholas Dickson - 1894 - 160 sider
...long measure nor peculiar metre. In the precenting world he was a kind of Sir William of Deloraine — Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow or...was tide or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime — a kind of " Gibbie-Gae-through-wi't " that stuck at nothing, like the sodger at the ghost. If the... | |
| Canniff Haight - 1895 - 634 sider
...cross ; By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best blood-hounds ; In Eske, or Liddel, fords were none But he would ride them one by one...matin prime : Steady of heart, and stout of hand, As e'er drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been, By England's King and Scotland's... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 sider
...desperate bounds, II»d baffled Percy's best blood-hounds : In Eske, or Liddcl, fords were none, Bat he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was...matin prime ; Steady of heart and stout of hand. As e'er drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been, By England's king and Scotland's... | |
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