 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 344 pages
...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 ; Each...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn*, Haunted by the lonely earn*j-; On many a cairn's ;£ gray pyramid,... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...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, Each...glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night." Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto III. St. 29. Let me now refresh your mind's eye with part of a morning... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...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 ;' Each...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. i They gleamed on many a dusky tarn, * Haunted by the lonely earn ; f On many a cairn's £ gray pyramid,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...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; Each...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn,* Haunted by the lonely earn ;•[• On many a cairn's J gray pyramid,... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...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; Each...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleara'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...sky, All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and clilf, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn,t Haunted hy the lonely earti ;); Oil many a cairn's^ gray pyramid,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 404 pages
...stellarum more videbam Barbaricos ardere focos. Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 453. soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff were seen ;, Each...caught ; • . Each after each they glanced to sight, -j As stars arise upon the night. • Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, ill. st. 29. •24. 'fis b'... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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; Each...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn,* Haunted by the lonely earn ;t On many a cairn's $ gray pyramid,... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - English fiction - 1822 - 228 pages
...high, Waved like a blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires,! ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen, Each...glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night." Lay of the Last Mimlrel, Canto III. St. 29. Let us now refresh your mind's eye with part of a morning... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...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 ; Each...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn,* Haunted by the lonely earn ;f On many a cairn's J gray pyramid,... | |
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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 seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught... 
