 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,...  Select Reviews - Page 351809Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1860 - 194 lehte
...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 in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrodds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.' r, ADJECTIVES. CIVIL, POLITE, COURTEOUS, POLISHED, WELL-BRED.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 lehte
...With 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...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints II swear VOL. u. 2 t I will... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1861 - 496 lehte
...Field," the like order is systematically employed with great effect : The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...gale. When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. 572. (3) Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 lehte
...With 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...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear:— " By heaven, and all its saints, I swear, I will not see it... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 lehte
...With 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...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear I will not see it... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 lehte
...With 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...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. ****** By this, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the battle's deadly swell, For still the Scots,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 lehte
...With 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...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could 'near : " By Heaven, and all its saints ', I swea. I will not see it... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1863 - 504 lehte
...Field," the like order is systematically employed with great effect : The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foea. 572. (3) Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 lehte
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. 30 The Border slogan rent the sky. A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; 35 As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 lehte
...With 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...— forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It... | |
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