Awaked the need-fire's slumbering brand, And ruddy blush'd the heaven : For a sheet of flame, from the turret high, Waved like a blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were... Shore and Sea; Or, Stories of Great Vikings and Sea-captains - Page 28de William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 348 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 932 pages
...flame, from the turret high, Waved like a blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven ; And eoon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's gray pyramid, Where... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1845 - 572 pages
...country seventy miles long from Berwick to the Bield, and fifty broad, was alarmed in a few hours. " A score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff were seen, Bach with warlike tidings fraught, Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 pages
...the Tweed, and flashing their ruddy gleam upon copsewood and river, hill-top and castle turret-! 26* "A score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill,...each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced in sight, As stars arise upon the night : They gleamed on many a dusky tarn Haunted by the lonely earn,*... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...sheet of flame, from the turret high, Waved, like a blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven. And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn,J Haunted by the lonely earn ;$ On many a cairn's gray pyramid, Where... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1850 - 340 pages
...beacons blazing through the gloom like ominous comets, and startling the night : — " A score of fires From height, and hill, and cliff were seen, Each with...they glanced to sight As stars arise upon the night." The antiquities in the neighhourhood of Penrith are very numerous and interesting. We propose describing... | |
 | 1851 - 704 pages
...country seventy miles long, from Berwick to the Bield, and fifty broad, was alarmed in a few hours. " A score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and...each the signal caught; Each after each they glanced in sight, As stars arise upon the night; They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn. Haunted by the lonely earn,*... | |
 | Michael Aislabie Denham - 1851 - 120 pages
...sheet of flame, from the tnrret high, Waved like a blood-flag on the aky, All flaring and nneven ; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and...hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings franght ; Each from each the signal canght ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise... | |
 | 1852 - 710 pages
...Berwick to the Bield, and tifty broad, was alarmed in a few hours. " A score of fires, I ween, Prom height, and hill, and cliff were seen, Each with warlike...Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each thej glanced in sight, As stare arise upon the night; They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn. Haunted by... | |
 | John Phillips, Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1853 - 356 pages
...beacons blazing through the gloom like ominous comets, and startling the night : — " A score of fires From height, and hill, and cliff were seen, Each with...they glanced to sight As stars arise upon the night." The antiquities in the neighbourhood of Penrith are very numerous and interesting. We propose describing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 906 pages
...sheet of ñame, from the turret high, Waved like a blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and...cliff were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; I 8» Appendix, Note 3 B. • l .\lou4farBramiiomt wai the gathering word of the Scott». I See Appendix,... | |
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