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
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pages
...blushed the heaven: } For a sheet of flame, from the turret high, \ Waved like a blood-flag on the sky, j And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn,* Haunted by the lonely earntf On many a cairn's gray pyramid, Where... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1861 - 788 pages
...the royal cause, that they were obliged, before the end * " A score of fires, I ween From height, aud hill, and cliff were seen, Each with warlike tidings...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pages
...blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and bill, and cliff, were seen; Each with warlike tidings fraught; Each from each the signal caught; Kaeh after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...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...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn,f Haunted by the lonely earn; J On many a cairn's § grey pyramid,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1864 - 284 pages
...other, to Freshwater and Mottistone, and " the sea-shore at Brighstone." And soon a acore of flrea, I ween. From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen....they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. Other regulations made by the inhabitants for their security have been preserved by Sir Richard Worsley... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1864 - 522 pages
...II. 1, 1.). Upon a given day; upon the seventh day; upon the first of January u. bgi. m. (LEXICOGR.). Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night (SCOTT, L. Minstr. 3, 29.). She said upon a time etc. (SHAKSP., Cymb. 3, 5.). Once upon a time . .... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...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...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn,+ Haunted by the lonely earn ; | On many a cairn's grey pyramid,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...sheet of (lame, from the turret high, "Waved like a hloc^-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven. And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen, • A Border beacon. From their number and position they formed i iind of telegraphic communication... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...sheet of fin me, 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,* Haunted by the lonely earn ;f On many a cairn's grey pyramid,4*... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...sheet of flame, from the turret high, Waved, like a blood-flng, on the sky, All flaring and uneven. And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and...the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to bight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many uilusky tarn,§ Haunted by the lonely earn... | |
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