To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-armed archers far and near 400 Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike and spear, A twilight... The Lady of the Lake - Página 192por Walter Scott - 1893Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 470 páginas
...Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere...array ! XVI. " Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike and spear, A twilight forest frowned, Their... | |
| Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 páginas
...ready to exclaim with the enraptured minstrel To hero bound for battle strife, Or bard oCuuu-ti.il by, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array. Observe now in the following extract the manner in which Lord Byron expresses himself on military matters.... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 páginas
...silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! 6 To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth...peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey'd the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike and spear,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1821 - 514 páginas
...the cloud of Saxon war, " That up the lake comes winding far ! " To hero boune for battle strife, " Or bard of martial lay, " 'Twere worth ten years of...peaceful life, " One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-arm'd archers far and near " Survey'd the tangled ground, " Their centre ranks, with pike and... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 308 páginas
...Wave o'er the head of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battie-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of...peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey'd the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike and spear,... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1830 - 900 páginas
...age, and such a case as the Alliance, presents a part of the material. THE FEDERAL, PROCESSION. « 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life— One glance at their array !" The parties to the procession all met at and about the intersection of Cedar and Third streets,... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 342 páginas
...I am the Alexander of the Nile.' I say of these fountains, what Scott says of a martial company, ' 'Twere 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, "... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 348 páginas
...I am the Alexander of the Nile.' I say of these fountains, what Scott says of a martial company, ' "Twere 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, "... | |
| Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 538 páginas
...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... | |
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