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
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 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, Haunted by the Ic.lely earn ; On many a cairn's gray pyramid, Where... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 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* grey pyramid,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 780 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 hill, and cliff, were seen ; Kach with warlike tidings fraught ; Fach from each the signal caught ; F.ach after each they glanced... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 144 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,f Haunted by the lonely earn ; Î On many a cairn's grey pyramid,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 144 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,t Haunted by the lonely earn ; J On many a cairn's grey pyramid,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 296 pages
...where fires on the hill-tops were so often used as signals in the olden time. Cf. the Lay, iii. 379 : " And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and...tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught," etc. 34. Deep-mouthed. Cf. Shakespeare, I Hen. VI. ii. 4. 12: "Between two dogs, which hath the deeper... | |
 | 1883 - 626 pages
...sent up its " beacon-blaze of war," repeated from height to height throughout the heart of Kent — " Each with warlike tidings fraught, Each from each the signal caught, Each after each they glanced to eight, As stars arise upon the night." — (SCOTT.) The Norman spirit soon stirred the sluggish Saxon... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1884 - 390 pages
...Wootton, and Cowes ; on the other, to Freshwater and Mottistoue, and " the seashore at Brighstone." " And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 368 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, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 154 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 hill, and cliff, were seen ; 380 Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced... | |
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