 Have then thy wish!' — He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows : On right, on left, above,...  The Tourist in Europe: Or, A Concise Summary of the Various Routes, Objects ... - Page 140by George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 288 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 lehte
...he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 lehte
...was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew ; Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets, and...and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 lehte
...he was answer'd from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth... | |
 | 1855 - 528 lehte
...to my mind Sir Walter Scott's beautiful description of the ambuscade in the ' Lady of the Lake.' ' Instant through copse and heath arose Bonnets, and spears, and bended bows, On right and left ; above, below, Sprang up at once the lurking foe. From shingles grey, their lances start,... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 lehte
...was answer'd from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew ; Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...below, Sprang up at once the lurking foe. From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart : The rushes and the willow wand Are... | |
 | John Milton Mackie - 1856 - 322 lehte
...invaders no more suspected danger from the peaceful hill-sides than the bird from the snare of the fowler, Instant, through copse and heath arose Bonnets and...and bended bows; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe. Then instead of the singing of the brook, the carol of the nightingale,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 lehte
...he was answer'd from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 lehte
...he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets, and...bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow- wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 lehte
...at their leader's whistle :—- " He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill. 1 nsiant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets, and spears,...below, Sprang up at once the lurking foe; From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart; The rushes and the willow wand Are... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 lehte
...he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth... | |
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