 No maiden's hand is round thee thrown ! That desperate grasp thy frame might feel Through bars of brass and triple steel ! They tug, they strain ! down, down they go, The Gael above, Fitz-James below. The Chieftain's gripe his throat...  The Lady of the Lake - Page 125by Walter Scott - 1918 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...convulsive effort overthrew him; that his knee was planted in his breast, and his hand griping his throat: " His clotted locks he backward threw, Across his brow his hand he drew, From bio d and mist to clear his sight Then gleam'ii aloft his dagger bright!" By what magic is the life... | |
 | 1810 - 590 pages
...Fitz James below. The chieftain's gripe his throat compressed, His knee was planted in his breast ; His clotted locks he backward threw, Across his brow...stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late th' advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleamed on high, Reeled... | |
 | English literature - 1810 - 1018 pages
...Fitz-James below. The .Chieftian's gripe his throat compress'd, . Hu knee was planted in his breast ; His clotted locks he backward threw, Across his brow...drew. From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam 'd aloft his dagger bright !— • — But hate, and fury ill-supplied The stream of life's... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...Fitz-James below. The Chieftain's gripe his throat compress'd, His knee was planted in his breast; His clotted locks he backward threw, Across his brow...drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright !-r— But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...rum blood und mist to clear his sight. Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ! — — But hate und fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide....turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reeled soul and sense, reeled brain and eye: Down came the blow ! hut in the heath... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...hand he drew, From hlood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleamed aloft his dagger hright ! — — But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage caniCj To turn the odds of deadly game ; For while the dagger gleamed on high, 'Reeled soul and sense,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...below. VOL. vI. B • The Chieftain's gripe his throat compress'd, His knee was planted in his breast; His clotted locks he backward threw, Across his brow...drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright!— —But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...compressai, His knee »as phnlcd in his breast; Mi clotted locks he backward threw, Across his brow 1ns hand he drew. From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleain'd aloft his dagger bright! — lint hale and fury ill supplied The stream of life'*, exhausted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...Fill-James below. The chieftain's gripe his throat compress'd, His knee was planted in Ins breast; His clotted locks he backward threw, Across his brow...drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger hrighl! — But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...Filz-Janu'S below. The chieftain's gripe his ihroat compressed, His knee was planted in his breast; His clotted locks he backward threw, Across his brow...supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all loo late the advanlage came, To turn the odds of deadly game; For while the dagger gh-amed on high,... | |
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