 Returned the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From ita firm base as soon as I.  Life of Sir Henry Lawrence - Page 25by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...his heart The life-blood thrill'd with sudden start, He >uann'd himself with dauntless air, Rcturn'd the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock...come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as scon as L'1' Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, Aud the stern... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 490 pages
...the habits and discipline of the peculiar branch of service to which they belonged. CHAPTER XXVIII. " His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before ;— 1 Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !' " LADY OF THE LAKE.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...was brave : — Though to his heart The life-blood thrilled with sudden start, He manned himself wilh dauntless air, Returned the Chief his haughty stare,...back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his fool before : — " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." —... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...his heart The life-blood thrill'd with suiMen start, He -uann'd himself with dauntless air, Itetum'd the Chief his haughty stare, His back again.st a rock...foot before : — " Come one, come all ! this rock sliall fly From its firm base as soon as I."1 Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Res|wct was mingled... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...Paradise Lost, book viii. MILTON. Content to dwell in decencies for ever. Second Moral Essay. POPE. Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base, sooner than I. Lady of the Lake. SCOTT. Could make the worse appear the better reason. Paradise Lost,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...sudden stait, He mann'd himself with dauntless air, Keturn'd the Chief his haughty stare, His hack against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one, come all I this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Respect... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1856 - 794 pages
...dauntless air, Return'd the Chief his haughty stare, His bnck against a roi-k he bore, And firmly plac'd his foot before : — ' Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From iis firm base as soon as I.' — Sir Roderick mark'd— and in his eyes Respect was mingled wiih surprise.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...with sodden start, He mann'd himself with daontless air, Retorned the Chief his haughty stare, Hi.* back against a rock, he bore, And firmly placed his...before : — ' Come one. come all! this rock shall fir From its firm base as soon as L' — Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1857 - 452 pages
...the habits and discipline of the peculiar branch of service to which they belonged. CHAPTER XXVIIL * His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before :— 1 Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !' " Lady of the Lake.... | |
 | Joseph Haven - Emotions - 1858 - 618 pages
...and, with Fitz-James, when suddenly confronted and surrounded by the hosts of Roderic Dhu, exclaim, " Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base, aa soon as Z" Instances of Firmness. — Napoleon, fiery and impetuous as he was, possessed this energy... | |
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