 Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? ;Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's...  Annual Register - Sida 806redigerad av - 1803Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1850 - 744 sidor
...the raven, as it now stands in the poem, suggesting, — not describing, — is far more sublime. " For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood,...And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood." How much more effective this intimation of the raven than the descriptive passage. This poem, with... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 sidor
...prisoners with the speediest means, ' Or you shall hear in such a kind from me As will displease you. 3. Return to thy dwelling, all lonely return ; For the...And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood. 4. And if you crown him, let me prophesy — The blood of English shall manure the ground, And future... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 sidor
...O, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return...o'er her famishing brood ! Lochiel. False wizard, avaunt ! I have marshalled my clan : Their swords are a thousand, — their bosoms are one ! They are... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 sidor
...O, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return...o'er her famishing brood ! Lochiel. False wizard, avaunt ! I have marshalled my clan : Their swords are a thousand, — their bosoms are one ! They are... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 sidor
...Oh, crested Lochiel! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return...And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood. Lochiel.—False Wizard, avaunt! I have marshalled my clan: Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 sidor
...banners arise on the batUemcuta' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Keturn to thy dwelling ! all lonely return ! For the blackness...o'er her famishing brood ! Lochiel. False wizard, avaunt ! I have marshalled my clan : Their swords are a thousand, — their bosoms are one ! They are... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 700 sidor
...sound of a distant engagement. CHAPTER VII. Proud bird of the mountain, thy plume shall be torn ! — Return to thy dwelling ; all lonely, return ; For...And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood. Campbett. THE night continued sullen and stormy ; but morning rose as if refreshed by the rains. Even... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1852 - 926 sidor
...eyrie, that beacons the darkness of Heaven. Oh crested Lochrel ! the peerless in might, * * * * Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return...the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood. CAMPBELL. IT was with a numbed and dreary sense of bruised and outraged feeling that Mary — the last... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1852 - 438 sidor
...distant engagement. CHAPTER VII. I'roud bird of the mountain, thy plume shall be torn ! — ****** Return to thy dwelling ; all lonely return ; For the...ashes shall mark where it stood, And a wild mother screnm o'er her fumishing brood. CAMPBKLI.. THE night continued sullen and stormy ; but morning rose... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 350 sidor
...crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the + battlements' hight : Heaven's fire is around- thee, to blast and to burn ; Return...the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood, 40. And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood. Loch. False Wizard, avaunt ! I have marshaled... | |
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