 The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,...  Select Reviews - Page 351809Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 428 pages
...dauntless mountaineer."] 8 [MS.— "Fell stainless Tunstall's banner white, Sir Edmund's lion fell."] A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : O " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. The English shafts in vollies hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ; Front, flank, and rear,... | |
 | James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 316 pages
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver 'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven and all its saints I swear,... | |
 | Elizabeth Jane Whately - English language - 1858 - 248 pages
...employed alone. ' I want to speak to you' is a * See the lines in Scott's Marmion, canto vi. : — ' The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.' 46 To say, speak, talk, tell, mention, state. perfect sentence in itself ; ' I want to say to you'... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...upon this charge, Cry — Heaven for Harry, England, and St. George. The border slogan rent the sky, A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...back, now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose. The war, that for a space, did fail, Now trebly thundering swept the gale, And Stanley ! was the cry.... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1858 - 460 pages
...• Loud were the clanging blo^s ; Advanced,— forced bacfa—now low, now high, The pennon sunlfand rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale When rent...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest effect, not only... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. 2. The border slogan rent the sky; A Home! a GORDON ! was the cry: Loud were the clanging...Advanced, forced back, now low, now high, The pennon stink and rose: As bends the bark's mast in th« gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1858 - 466 pages
...the clanging blows ; Advanved,-forved lack,—now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose; As bendx the bark's mast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest effect, not only... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...a Gordon! was the cry; Loud irtre the clunping blows; Adt'iittcc'il,— forced /'</<•£, — note low, now high, ^ The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale. When rent art riffging, ehrouds, and sail, It wavcr'd 'mia the foes. 572. (3) Pursuing the principle yet further,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1860 - 656 pages
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The Border slogan rent the sky! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry* Loud were the clanging...When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered amid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear:— "By heaven, and all the saints! I swear, I... | |
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