| 1841 - 488 páginas
...resolute as that of the stalworth opponent of Roderic Dhu, when he shouted to his ambushed foes : " Come one, come all ; this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." We were still unable to get a sight at the creature itself; but could perceive, by the direction of... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1842 - 464 páginas
...branch of service to which they belonged. CHAPTER XIII. . • ; " His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — ' Come one,...this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !'" Lady of the Lake. OUR battle will be told with greater clearness, if the reader is furnished with... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1842 - 308 páginas
...peculiar branch of service to which they belonged. CHAPTER IX. His back against a rock he bore, A nd firmly placed his foot before: " Come one, come all!...this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !" Lady of the Lake. OUR battle will be told with greater clearness if the reader is furnished with... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 páginas
...dauntless air, Return'd the chief his haughty stare, POETIC PIECES. His back against a rook he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : " Come one, come...From its firm base as soon as I." — Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1843 - 452 páginas
...to which they belonged. CHAPTER XXVIII. His back against a rock be bore, And firmly placed his tool before: "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as 1 1 " Lady of the Late. OUR battle will be told with greater clearness if the reader is furnished with... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 páginas
...dauntless air, Return'd the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly plac'd bis foot before : — ' Come one, come all ! this rock...and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foenian worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 páginas
...himself with dauntless air, Returned the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one...fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 páginas
...himself with dauntless air, Return'd the chief his haugttty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : " Come one, come...From its firm base as soon as I."— Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel... | |
| 1844 - 524 páginas
...approval or disapproval, he has seemed to say, in the stirring words of the hero of the Scottish poet, " Come one, come all — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." This has been his resolution — a resolution, be it remembered, which would be worse than weakness... | |
| 1874 - 898 páginas
...pocket, as if to defend that receptacle of treason, and stood with the air of the hero in the poem — Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. Harding, for the first time in his life, was melodramatic in his determination to give his blood sooner... | |
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