 I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their...  Life of Sir Henry Lawrence - Page 71by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1874 - 388 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-arm 'd archers far and near Survey 'd the tangled ground, 1'heir centre ranks,... | |
 | Joseph Thatcher Woods - Ohio infantry. 96th regiment, 1861-1865 - 1874 - 274 pages
...the soft sunlight of a cloudless sky alike reflected from the waters and the trappings of war — ' ' Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance, at their array." This beautiful vision proved exceedingly brief. A general change in the composition of Mother Earth... | |
 | Isaac Plant Fleming - English language - 1875 - 382 pages
...illustration. 8. Parse and analyse the following: The hero bound for battle strife Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life. One glance at their array. JUNIOR CANDIDATES, 1871. 2. English Grammar. 1. Explain the terms abstract noun, collective noun, relative... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, are All his remembrances, thoughts, shapes, and forms And, being ! XVI. 278 THE LADY OF THE LAKE. Their centre ranks, with pike and spear, A twilight forest frown'd,... | |
 | 1876 - 462 pages
...the dying Roderick, in which occur these two lines, breathing the very spirit of Homer himself: — ":Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array." In this last long poem Scott essayed a subject more fitted for a national epic than any other which... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - Elocution - 1879 - 256 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array. Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground ; Their center ranks, with pike... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 330 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far I To hero bound for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! ' Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | Margaret Ann Courtney - Cornwall (England : County) - 1880 - 638 pages
...his Lady of the Lake, canto vi. ver. 15 : ' To hero boune for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Again in the far more ancient ballad of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, first printed in 1765 : ' Busk... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...Saxon war That up the lake comes winding farl To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array. "Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | Samuel W. Durant - Kalamazoo County (Mich.) - 1880 - 761 pages
...war-cloud, ready to burst in flame and blood over a devoted land. As the gallant cavalcade swept on, " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array." After a long and weary ride, during which a number of jaded steeds and toil-worn warriors gave out... | |
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