 I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their...  Romance and reality, by L.E.L. - Seite 169von Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1838 - 358 Seiten
...did huntsmen, horses, and hounds, enter the .field in such splendid condition as the Marquis's : " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array :" and the work they have done, and the manner in which they have done it, justify the predictions... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 Seiten
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bonne for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! : XVI. " Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 Seiten
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ' To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. *e Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 Seiten
...war, That up the lake comes winding far! 6 To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey*d the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1830 - 902 Seiten
...age, and such a case as the Alliance, presents a part of the material. Til K FEDERAL PROCESSION. . " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life — One glance at their array !" ''THIS great procession took place at Philadelphia, for the purpose of celebrating the adoption... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1833 - 336 Seiten
...and pleasure, what we could by no means constrain by any force of our arms. THE FEDERAL PROCESSION. " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life — One glance at their array !" THIS great procession took place at Philadelphia, for the purpose of celebrating the adoption of... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1833 - 350 Seiten
...and pleasure, what we could by no means constrain by any force of our arms. THE FEDERAL PROCESSION. " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life — One glance at their array !" THIS great procession took place at Philadelphia, for the purpose of celebrating the adoption of... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 722 Seiten
...warlike melody from the Edinburgh Castle rock, and I could not help answering it in his own words, ' 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' " I was surprised when I returned to Chiefswood to think that I had been conversing so * Upon this... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 528 Seiten
...warlike melody from the Edinburgh Castle rock, and I could not help answering it in his own words, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' " I was surprised when I returned to Chiefswood to think that I had been conversing so freely and fearlessly... | |
 | Mortimer O'Sullivan - 1836 - 262 Seiten
...Britain from such a custody ? (L) A great poet has said, speaking of a grand military spectacle — " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array." I can now fully understand the expression, and say, that had my H 2 life from infancy to the present... | |
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