 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 páginas
...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 ! I swear... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 páginas
...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 ! I swear,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 páginas
...yell. The Border slogan rent the sky : A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blowa ; Advanced — forced back — now low, now high. The...the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, sbrouds, und sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view couUl bear : " By heaven, and... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 páginas
...Howard's lion fell : Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...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 bears — "By heaven, and all its saints! I swear,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 páginas
...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...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, •It wavered 'mid the foes. Then Eustace mounted too ;—yet staid, As loth to leave the helpless maid,... | |
 | Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1852 - 192 páginas
...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...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.' 4 ' . ADJECTIVES. CIVIL, POLITE, COURTEOUS, POLISHED, WELL-BKED. Civility is... | |
 | Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1852 - 182 páginas
...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...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.' ADJECTIVES. CIVIL, POLITE, COURTEOUS, POLISHED, WELL-BRED. Civility is now... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 páginas
...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...sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear I will not see it lost ! Fitz-Eustace,... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 páginas
...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 all that's sacred, I do swear,... | |
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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,... 
