 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given; Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threat'ning mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 310 pages
...beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threat'ning masa Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
 | Henry H. Methuen - Africa, Southern - 1846 - 352 pages
...on each other in the greatest confusion, and often standing balanced on a base not half a foot wide, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge — SCOTT. which P and I often did, producing fearful they encircle, a peculiarly desolate and chaotic... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threat 'ning mass Lay tott'ring o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge The headlong... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threat'ning mass Lay tott'ring o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given ; Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still ; Like the...weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed his eye and sable brow... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 170 pages
...beck and will, All silent there they stood and still ; Liku the loose crags whose threat'ning mats . Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon thn mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Bcledi'x living side, Then... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1849 - 316 pages
...host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. 16* Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fix'd... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given ; Watching their leader's beck and will, 20 All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, 25 With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance... | |
 | James Browne - Clans - 1849 - 570 pages
...If the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had Riven. Watching their leader's beck und will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lny tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down... | |
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That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood and still ; Like the loose crags whose threatening... 
