 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 334 pages
...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...they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn*, Haunted by the lonely earn-f 1 ; On many a cairn's £ gray pyramid,... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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,... | |
 | 1831 - 1008 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1819 - 404 pages
...VIII. 551. Nox erat, et late stellarum more videbam Barbaricos ardere focos. Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 453. soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill,...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'... | |
 | 1819 - 406 pages
...551. Nox era! , et late stellarum more videbam Barbaricos ardere focos. Claud, vi. Cons. Hon. 453. -soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill,...cliff were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught, Kitch from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...a sheet of flame, from the turret high, Waved like a hloodflag on the 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 from each the signal caught; Each after... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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...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 - 1822 - 340 pages
...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...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... | |
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Awaked the need-fire's slumbering brand, And ruddy blush'd the heaven : 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... 
