 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 - 1872 - 627 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Avocats - 1928 - 314 pages
...details of establishing [101] a National Bank were being considered, Choate was no man to shout, jGome one, come all. This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I!' All this is merely saying that Choate was Lincolnian rather than Wilsonian in his idealism. The arrogant... | |
 | Booker T Washington, Louis R Harlan - Social Science - 1977 - 748 pages
...in Hinds county, not far from Jackson. Wherever they can be placed, merit shall be the test with me. "Come one come all, This rock shall fly, From its firm base, as soon as I." About the Judgeship. I fully concur in your suggestions. I have cause, however, to suspect that this... | |
 | Katherine Menz - Government publications - 1990 - 462 pages
...little legs wide apart, was wielding a fence paling in lieu of a lance and proclaiming in a loud voice, 'this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.' Mary, bubbling with laughter, called out, 'Grammercy, brave Knights. 37 Pray be more merciful than... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Collections - 1993 - 372 pages
...the rock with the rock also at your back and as in the case of King James and Roderick Dhu can say come one come all This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. Such uttered or not is the strength of your sentence. Sentences in which their is no strain. A fluttering... | |
 | Leslie Margolin - Education - 212 pages
...found holding a group of tormenting boys at arm's length," shouting these lines from Sir Walter Scott: Come one, come all. This rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I. Confirming the early appearance of every virtue, in his first year at boarding school, at the age of... | |
 | H. J. Eysenck - Business & Economics - 1995 - 360 pages
...the age of five, he was found holding a group of tormenting boys at arm's length, shouting meanwhile, 'Come one, come all. This rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.' (9) The amount and character of his reading. By six, under the tutelage of Adele, Galton had become... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1998 - 450 pages
...discipline of the peculiar branch of service to which they belonged. CHAPTER XXVIII "His back ngainst a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before;— 'Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From iis firm base as soon as I!' " Scorr, THE LADY OF THE LAKE, Vx232-35. OUR BATTLE will be told with... | |
 | James Alan Marten - History - 1998 - 310 pages
...directions, except one bold, black-eyed girl, who defiantly placed herself against a wall, saying, "Come one, come all, this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I! Come on, boys, I ain't afraid of you!" "A fort! a fort to take!" shouted the boys. "Fire!" said the... | |
 | Michael West - American literature - 2000 - 546 pages
...meanwhile you have got your feet planted upon the rock, with the rock also at your back, and . . . can say, "Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Such, uttered or not, is the strength of your sentence. Sentences in which there is no strain. (W.... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 844 pages
...< Great cheering. > Let them come. In the language of the illustrious bard, I say let them come — "Come one, come all, this rock shall fly, From its firm base as soon as I."12 <Loud and continued applause. > I stood by my country and my country's interest in more perilous... | |
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