| Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...and warrior deed, Are in thy course — Speed, Malise, speed ! 14 Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen,...upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Nor slacked the messenger his pace ; He showed the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward... | |
| Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...warrior deed, Are in thy course — speed, Malise, speed ! XIV. Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he named the... | |
| Benjamin Homer Hall - Vermont - 1858 - 830 pages
...impending war — was borne from village to village, so now, at the approach of the courier — " In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen,...They poured each hardy tenant down. • ***•• The swarthy smith took dirk and brand ; With changed cheer, the mower blithe Left in the half-cut swathe... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...death, and warrior deed, Are in thy course: speed, Malise, speed I Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise; From winding glen,...upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Nor slacked the messenger his pace; He showed the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward like... | |
| Benjamin Homer Hall - Vermont - 1858 - 842 pages
...— was borne from village to village, so now, at the approach of the courier — " In arms the bnta and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland...poured each hardy tenant down. * • * • • • The swarthy smith took dirk and brand ; With changed cheer, the mower blithe Left in the half-cut swathe... | |
| Benjamin Homer Hall - 1858 - 832 pages
...from village to village, so now, at the approach of the courier — " In arms the huts and hainleta rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown They poured each hardy tenant down. ****** The swarthy smith took dirk and brand ; With changed cheer, the mower blithe Left in the half-out swathe... | |
| Merchant - Europe - 1859 - 368 pages
...be forwarded on with fresh speed to other clans farther north. " Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise; From winding glen...upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down." The fiery cross was the Scottish "wampum belt," sent round to the clans to call them together and unite... | |
| John Pendleton Kennedy - 1860 - 612 pages
...which the burden was divided. CHAPTER LII. SIGNS 0¥ A GATHERING STORM. MUSTER OF THE BACKWOODSMEN, In arms the huts and hamlets rise, From winding glen,...upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down. — LADY OF THE LAKE. IN gathering up the ends of our story, as we draw towards a conclusion, we are... | |
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