 | 1882 - 330 sidor
...The archery appear ; For life, for life their flight they ply While shriek and shout and battle cry, And plaids and bonnets waving high, And broadswords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in their rear. VI. " RAPID, OK QUICKEST MOVEMENT." 1. Lyric Style. "•Aspirated Quality:" "Impassioned"... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1883 - 454 sidor
...horse and spearmen pause, While to explore the dangerous glen, Dive through the pass the archer-men. At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark...broad-swords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in their rear. Onward they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued ; How shall it keep its rooted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 296 sidor
...and narrow dell, As all the fiends from heaven that fell Had pealed the banner-cry of hell ! . 43° Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before...maddening in the rear. Onward they drive in dreadful race, XVII. Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 sidor
...driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear : For life ! for life ! their plight they ply — And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry,...they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight... | |
 | 1883 - 778 sidor
...driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear ; For life I for life I their plight they ply. And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry, And...they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 144 sidor
...driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear : For life! for life !their plight they ply — And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry,...they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 144 sidor
...driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear : For life! for life! their plight they ply — And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry,...they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 sidor
...driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear : For life ! for life ! their plight they ply — And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry,...they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight... | |
 | 1883 - 528 sidor
...heaven, The archery appear. For life ! for life ! their plight they ply, And shriek, and shout, aud battle-cry, And plaids and bonnets waving high, And...they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued. Before that tide of flight and chase How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 sidor
...driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear. For life ! for life ! their plight they ply—- And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry,...broadswords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in the rear. Sir Walter Scott. CHRISTMAS. AND well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had... | |
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Had pealed the banner-cry of hell ! Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear: For life ! for life ! their flight they ply — And shriek, and shout, and battle-cry, And plaids and bonnets waving high,... 
