I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! To hero bound for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'T were worth ten years of peaceful life. One glance at their array! The Life of John Pendleton Kennedy - Էջ 72Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1871 - 490 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 էջ
...war, Thai up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'T were worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. • Their light arm'd archers far and near Sartey'd the UDgled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 260 էջ
...I am the Alexander of the Nile.' I say of these fountains, what Scott says of a martial company, "T were worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Besides, do you hold as nothing his own consciousness of right?" " Why, sir," replied Mr. Brande, truth... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 512 էջ
...I am the Alexander of the Nile.' I say of these fountains, what Scott says of a martial company, "T were worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Besides, do you hold as nothing his own consciousness of right ?" " Why, sir," replied Mr. Brande,... | |
| Mortimer O'Sullivan - 1836 - 262 էջ
...from such a custody ? (L) A great poet has said, speaking of a grand military spectacle — " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array." I can now fully understand the expression, and say, that had my H 2 life from infancy to the present... | |
| Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 528 էջ
...warlike melody from the Edinburgh Castle rock, and I could not help answering it in his own words, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' " I was surprised when I returned to Chiefswood to think that I had been conversing so freely and fearlessly... | |
| Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 722 էջ
...melody from the Edinburgh Castle rock, and I could not help answering it in his own words, ' 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' " I was surprised when I returned to Chiefswood to think that I had been conversing so * Upon this anecdote... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 էջ
...war-melody from the Fxiinburg Castle rock, and I could not help answering it in his own words : " Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array :" " I was surprized when I returned to Chiefswood to think I had been conversing so freely and fearlessly... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 էջ
...That up the lake comes winding far: To hero, boune | for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'T were worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array. 2. Their ligh^armed archers far and near, Surveyed the tangled ground : Their center ranks, with pike... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 էջ
...war, That up the lake comes winding far. To hero, boune for battle-strife, Or bard of +martial lay, 'T were worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array. 3. Their light-arm'd archers far and near, Survey'd the tangled ground: Their center ranks, with pike... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1862 - 412 էջ
...rider and each straining swed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. " 'T were worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array." They pass the fair-ground. They are at the corner of the lane where the wood begins. It runs close... | |
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