 And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky...  The Sportsman - Sida 176Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1856 - 722 sidor
...lengthen now, and forward is the word, '' over the hills and far away" — " Past many a lonely tarn, Haunted by the sailing hern, By many a cairn's grey...clambering up the cliffs : now plunging to the hips in tho tall heather, then threading our way cautiously through a morass, we hold on our course until the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 340 sidor
...escaped a great danger ; and, by my means, there were a great many men's lives saved that day." On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid. St. XXVIII. p. 87. The cairns, or piles, of loose stone, which crown the summit of most of our Scottish... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 sidor
...beacons in communication with Branksome, " Gleamed on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid ; Till high Dunedin the blazes saw." Lady of the Lake, Canto III. St. 29. In the stag-hunt upon the... | |
 | 1831 - 1008 sidor
...As stars arise upon the night. They gleara'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid; Till high Dunedin the blazes saw, From Soltra and Dumpender Law ; And Lothian heard the Regent's order,... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 sidor
...veneration of mysterious antiquity. The Border beacons in communication with Branksome, " gleamed " On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid." Lady of the Lake, Canto II f. St. 29. The priest who was despatched from Loch-Ranza with a message... | |
 | 1848 - 700 sidor
...right, As Stan arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid." The Gal* is a good stream, but the angler must go up some little distance from the town of Galashiels... | |
 | 1831 - 1040 sidor
...sight, As stars arise upon the night* They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid ; Till high Dunedin the blazes saw, From Soltra and Dumpender Law ; And Lothian heard the Regent's... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1856 - 802 sidor
...forward is the word, " over the hills and far away" — " Paat many a lonely tarn, Haunted by the nailing hern, By many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of...heather, then threading our way cautiously through a mornss, we hold on our course until the whole party, " little dogs and all," breathless and weary,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 sidor
...As stars arise upon the night : They gleam 'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn,* On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid." Lay o/tlte Last Minstrel. The strongest and the most entire of these fortresses is NIDPATH CASTLE,... | |
 | 1844 - 858 sidor
...sight, As stars arise upon the night, They gleamed on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid." • In wandering about this interesting spot which changes its forms with every devious step, the continental... | |
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