With side-long plough to quell the flinty ground, To turn the torrent's swift-descending flood, To brave the savage rushing from the... Rob Roy - Strona 264autor: Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - Liczba stron: 348Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| John Pinkerton - 1794 - Liczba stron: 640
...iron men. The mountains of Scandinavia, and ot" Scotland, were the natural foil of fuch a race. • *> An iron race the mountain-cliffs maintain, Foes to the gentler genius of the plain. What wonder if, to patient valour train'd, They guard with fpirit what by itrength they gain'd ? And... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1804 - Liczba stron: 224
...parent earth. As various tracks enforce a various toil, The manners speak the idiom of their soil. An iron race the mountain-cliffs maintain, Foes to the gentler genius of the plain : For where unwearied sinews must be found With side-long plough to quell the flinty ground, To turn... | |
| Lady Maria Callcott - 1821 - Liczba stron: 356
...their soil, An iron race the mountain cliffs maintain, Foes to 111'1 gentler genius of the' plain. And while their rocky ramparts round they see, The rough abode of want and liberty, Insult the plenty of the vales below. GRAY'S Fragment. ROCK LEADING TO CAPRANICA. SCENE OF THE FEUDS... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - Liczba stron: 468
...What wonder, if to patient valour train'd They guard with spirit, what by strength they gain'dT 95 And while their rocky ramparts round they see, The rough abode of want and liberty, _ (As lawless force from confidence will grow) Insult the plenty of the vales below ? What wonder,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - Liczba stron: 844
...parent earth. As various tracts enforce a varions toi), The manners speak the idiom of their poll. ry pomp repose? Have we not seen ut pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequ ; For where unwearied sinews mnst be fonnd, With side-long plough to quell the flinty ground, To turn... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - Liczba stron: 256
...parent earth ; As various tracts enforce a various toil, The manners speak the idiom of their soil. An iron race the mountain-cliffs maintain, Foes to the gentler genius of the plain ; For where unweary'd sinews must be found With aide-long plough to quell the flinty groand, To turn... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - Liczba stron: 558
...little pain or inconvenience afterwards from the scratch I had received. CHAPTER XXVI. • **»*** AD iron race the mountain-cliffs maintain, Foes to the gentler genius of the plain. Who, whilst their rocky ramparts round they see, . : The rough abode of want and liberty, As lawless force... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - Liczba stron: 280
...wonder if, to patient valonrtrafa'd, They guard with «pirit what by strength they gail'*) And wh,le their rocky ramparts round they see The rough abode of want and liherty, (As lawless force from .can fide nce will grow,) inat,lt the plenty of the vales helow. Fragment... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - Liczba stron: 394
...What wonder if, to patient valour train'd, Tliey guard with spirit what by strength they gain'd. And while their rocky ramparts round they see, The rough abode of want and liberty, (Aa lawless force from confidence will grow,) Insult the plenty of the vales below ? Fragment on the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - Liczba stron: 728
...and I experienced very little pain or inconvenience afterwards from the scratch I had received. tînt An iron race the mountain-cliffs maintain, Foes to the gentler genius of the plain. • * is • s Who, while their rocky ramparts round they see, The rough abode of want and liberty,... | |
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