| Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...bagpipe or in harp." 1 [MS. — " Noon of hunger, night of waking. No rude sound shall rouse thine ear."] And the bittern sound his drum. Booming from the sedgy...champing, Shouting clans, or squadrons stamping." xxxn. She paused — then, blushing, led the lay l To grace the stranger of the day. Her mellow notes... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...squadron 1 - tramping. Yet the lark's** shrill fife may come', At the daybreak from the fallow v , And the bittern*- sound his drum', Booming from the...none** be near, Guards nor warders challenge here v Here's no war-steed's neigh and champing', Shouting clans or squadrons stamping. 3. Huntsman', restM... | |
| Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 362 pages
...Noon of hunger, night of waking. And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Euder sounds shall none be near, Guards nor warders challenge...champing, Shouting clans, or squadrons stamping." XXXII. She paused — then, blushing, led the lay l To grace the stranger of the day. Her mellow notes... | |
| James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 316 pages
...war-steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan, or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the day-break from the fallow,...and champing, Shouting clans or squadrons stamping." She paused — then, blushing, led the lay To grace the stranger of the day. Her mellow notes awhile... | |
| Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...war-steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan, or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the day-break from the fallow,...Booming from the sedgy shallow. Ruder sounds shall noue be near ; Guards nor warders challenge here, Here's no war-steed's neigh and champing, Shouting... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1858 - 114 pages
...Dryden bumping, and by Goldsmith booming." Sir Walter Scott uses the same word :— " Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the day-break from the fallow,...bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow." LINE 44.—Booming, comes from L. and Gr., bomuus, a humming, a booming noise. " Those who have walked... | |
| Oswald Jackson - 1858 - 300 pages
...war-steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here, Mustering clan, or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come, At the daybreak from the fallow...bittern sound his drum. Booming from the sedgy shallow. Kuder sounds shall none be near, Guards nor warders challenge here; Here's no war-steed's neigh and... | |
| William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...war-steed's champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan, or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the day-break from the fallow,...war-steed's neigh and champing, Shouting clans or squadron's tramping. SCOTT. THE LADY'S GRAVE. THEY laid my lady in her grave, My lady with the deep... | |
| John Potter Hamilton - Falconry - 1860 - 362 pages
...BITTERN.—WILD 6EESE. THE FLIGHT OF WILD GEESE.—BRENT GEESE. " But the lark's shrill pipe shall come, At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy hollow." Lady of the Lake. Canto 1. -" driving sleets Deform the day delightless, so that scarce The... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1860 - 656 pages
...war-steed champing, Tramp nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan, or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, 6OK6. Here's no war-steed's neigh and Shouting clans or squadrons stamping." xxxn. She paused— then,... | |
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