 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...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 593edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, ide ; O ! XVI. 278 THE LADY OF THE LAKE. Their centre ranks, with pike and spear, A twilight forest frown'd,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array I " Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | William Stevens Robinson - 1877 - 626 pages
...would have walked to Philadelphia, albeit not a great walker, to see that ridiculous sight, — "'Twas worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array." I should have missed the erudite Winthrop, and the experienced Ashmun, and Quincy Adams, and Franklin... | |
 | 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 - 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 barbed horsemen, in the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Margaret Ann Courtney - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel W. Durant - 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... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1881 - 486 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 his last long poem Scott essayed a subject more fitted for a national epic than any other which... | |
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