 At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast; And, first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons flew , As in the storm the white sea-mew.  Modern Painters ... - Page 204by John Ruskin - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...the anxious squires; their eys Could in the darkness nought descry. • The declivity of a hill. rsvi At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons new, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...fresliening western blast And, first, the ridge of mingled ! _ Above the brightening cloud appeals; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then mark'd they, dashing broad and i The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains 1 Floating... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 pages
...triumph and despair. Tx>nglook'dtheanxioussquires; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast; L And, first, the ridge of mingled spaa Above the brightening cloud appean; And in the smoke the pennons... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...and despair. Long looked the anxious squires; their eye Could in tnc darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...smoke the pennons flew, As In the storm the white scamew. Then marked they, dashing broad and far The broken billows of the war. And plumed crests of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...and despair. Long look'd the anxious squires; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. . xxvi. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons Hew, Aa in the storm the white sea-mew. Then mark'd they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows... | |
 | Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1868 - 520 pages
...iii. 165 sqq. 3 See Marrnion, Canto vi. 26 [a virtually parallel passage to that in the Iliad] :— 'At length the freshening western blast Aside the...mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; in all this; but it seems to prove that heraldry is really a post-Homeric institution. Perhaps the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...Dickens the honor of being the Shak»f English prose of the nineteenth century. DEATH OF LORD MARMIOX. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast ; And, fin-t, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...triumph and despair. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Conld in the darkness nought descry. 26 At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening clond appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew, Then marked they,... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...triumph and despair. 5. Long look'd the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness naught descry. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. 6. Then mark'd they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 pages
...triumph and despair ! Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast ; 490 . And, first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke... | |
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