The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,... The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Pàgina 61per Walter Scott - 1822Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pàgines
...charge, Cry — Heaven for Harry, England, and St. George. The border slogan rent the sky, A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows...back, now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose. The war, that for a space, did fail, Now trebly thundering swept the gale, And Stanley ! was the cry.... | |
| Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1858 - 248 pàgines
...employed alone. ' I want to speak to you' is a * See the lines in Scott's Marmion, canto vi. : — ' The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.' 46 To say, speak, talk, tell, mention, state. perfect sentence in itself ;... | |
| Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pàgines
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. 2. The border slogan rent the sky; A Home! a GORDON ! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows;...Advanced, forced back, now low, now high, The pennon stink and rose: As bends the bark's mast in th« gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 460 pàgines
...• Loud were the clanging blo^s ; Advanced,— forced bacfa—now low, now high, The pennon sunlfand rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 pàgines
...the clanging blows ; Advanved,-forved lack,—now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose; As bendx the bark's mast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 pàgines
...a Gordon! was the cry; Loud irtre the clunping blows; Adt'iittcc'il,— forced /'</<•£, — note low, now high, ^ The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale. When rent art riffging, ehrouds, and sail, It wavcr'd 'mia the foes. 572. (3) Pursuing the principle yet further,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pàgines
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The Border slogan rent the sky! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry* Loud were the clanging blows;...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered amid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear:— "By heaven, and all the saints! I swear,... | |
| Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1860 - 194 pàgines
...lightning, and torn up by the roots by a high wind. *See the lines in Scott's Marmion, canto vi. : — ' The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrodds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.' r, ADJECTIVES. CIVIL, POLITE, COURTEOUS, POLISHED, WELL-BRED.... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1861 - 496 pàgines
...like order is systematically employed with great effect : The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows;...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. 572. (3) Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest effect,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pàgines
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints II swear... | |
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