 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 - Pagina 593geredigeerd door - 1836Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pagina’s
...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-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pagina’s
...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. *e Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 470 pagina’s
...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-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 420 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...war, That up the lake comes winding far! 6 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 512 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 342 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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, "... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1832 - 452 pagina’s
...Alpine war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle strife To bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array !" But we are forgetting the briefness of our space in the interest of our criticism, for these poems... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1833 - 350 pagina’s
...and pleasure, what we could by no means constrain by any force of our arms. THE FEDERAL PROCESSION. " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life — One glance at their array !" THIS great procession took place at Philadelphia, for the purpose of celebrating the adoption of... | |
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