 His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.  Life of Sir Henry Lawrence - Page 25by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872Full view - About this book
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...life-blood thrilled with sudden start, He mann'd himself with dauntless air, Return'd the chief his haugttty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly...rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."— Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...dauntless air, Return'd the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly plac'd bis foot before : — ' Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.' — Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | 1844 - 524 pages
...approval or disapproval, he has seemed to say, in the stirring words of the hero of the Scottish poet, " Come one, come all — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." This has been his resolution — a resolution, be it remembered, which would be worse than weakness... | |
 | Orville Dewey - Theology - 1844 - 904 pages
...frame, that as he takes his seat on the coach-box, you fancy him saying to all obstacles and dangers, " Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Chester is an ancient city, with marks of antiquity in every structure and stone. The streets are channelled... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...pocket, as if to defend that receptacle of treason, and stood with the air of the hero in the poem — Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. Harding, for the first time in his life, was melodramatic in his determination to give his blood sooner... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 312 pages
...with sudden start, He mann'd himself witli dauntless air, Return'd the chief his haughty stare, •v His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed...this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." — Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...thrilled with sudden start, He mann'd himself with dauntless air, Return'd the chief his haughty staro, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed...this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." — • Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...dauntless air, Return'd the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly plac'd his foot before : — " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." — Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 424 pages
...appropriate manner.] Grief: — " Oh ! I have lost you all ! Parents, and home, and friends." Courage : — " Come one, come all ! — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Awe : — " My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on In silence... | |
 | 1872 - 812 pages
...of such a course as we may suppose duty calls us to take. It is not every one who can say — " Como one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." But if it is given to us to say so, with a full apprehension of what the words implv, wo may enlist... | |
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