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, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Página 593editado por - 1836Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Robert E. G. Cole - 1886 - 400 páginas
...his Lady of the Lake, canto vi. ver. 15 : ' To hero boune for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere 'worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Again in the far more ancient ballad of Robin Hood and Guy of Oisborne, first printed in 1765 : ' Busk... | |
| Walter Scott - 1888 - 364 páginas
...Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! To hero bonne 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... | |
| Charles S. Greene - 1889 - 618 páginas
...brave rider and each straining steed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. " 'Twere 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... | |
| Frank Moore - 1889 - 602 páginas
...brave rider and each straining steed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. ' Twere 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... | |
| Charles M. Clark - 1889 - 642 páginas
...lively Union music, and the well-clothed and orderly soldiers tramping onward in measured steps. " ' Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,— One glance at their array." We passed at a quick-step through the city and were soon joined by General Shields and staff, who took... | |
| Robert Perceval Graves - 1889 - 722 páginas
...and of Mrs. Nichol, to be their guest next week during the celebration of the Centenary of Burns. " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array." There's a very sincere quotation for you ; but you will probably disdain to use it in any speech of... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 páginas
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! 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-arm'd archers far and near Survey'd the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
| Joseph W. Morton - 1890 - 636 páginas
...brave rider and each straining steed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. " 'Twere 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... | |
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - 1891 - 320 páginas
...of entering upon one's ministry in times like these. It makes me think of Scott's couplet, — " ' 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' "I thought I had some conception of the truth, when I preached my first sermon. But it is marvellously... | |
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