 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
 | Joseph W. Morton - United States - 1890 - 642 pages
...brave rider and each straining steed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array." They pass the fair ground. They are at the corner of the lane where the wood begins. It runs close to the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 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, Their centre ranks, with... | |
 | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Congregational churches - 1891 - 320 pages
...of entering upon one's ministry in times like these. It makes me think of Scott's couplet, — " ' 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' "I thought I had some conception of the truth, when I preached my first sermon. But it is marvellously... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 580 pages
...rider and each straining steed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. " ' Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array." They pass the fair ground. They are at the corner of the lane where the wood begins. It runs close to the... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - Secret service - 1892 - 592 pages
...rider and each straining steed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. " 'Twrre worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array." They pass the fair ground. They are at the corner of the lane where the wood begins: It runs close to the... | |
 | American fiction - 1898 - 560 pages
...the " Moray's silver star," that we feel that To hero bound for battle strife Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array. The " Lord of the Isles," as a whole, shows Scott's power much impaired ; but the description of Bannockburn,... | |
 | Robert Stephen Hawker - Cornwall (England : County) - 1893 - 242 pages
...war. It was indeed an original scene ; " For chief intent on deeds of strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! " Here a decently dressed woman made many fruitless endeavours to coax out of the brawl five or six... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 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-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground. Their centre ranks, with... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - English language - 1895 - 358 pages
...that I might be admitted to thy presence ! that mine were the supreme delight of knowing thy will ! 4 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! 5. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. 6. The vigorous sun would... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Generals - 1897 - 450 pages
...a just tribute to their patriotism, sufferings, and achievements. In the words of Sir Walter Scott, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life. One glance at their array. General Grant wrote of this military display: " The sight was varied and grand. Nearly all day, for... | |
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