The Monk gazed long on the lovely moon, Then into the night he looked forth; And red and bright the streamers light Were dancing in the glowing north. So had he seen, in fair Castile, The youth in glittering squadrons start, Sudden the flying jennet wheel,... Romance and Reality - Seite 71von Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 Seiten
...in glittering squadrons start Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light. ГХ. By a stcel-clenchod postern door, They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 Seiten
...in glittering squadrons start; Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light. IX. By a steel-clenched postern door, They entered now the chancel tall; The darken'd roof rose high... | |
| English poetry - 1869 - 328 Seiten
...glittering squadrons start ; Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light. By a steel-clenched postern door, They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high aloof... | |
| Class-book - 1869 - 344 Seiten
...glittering squadrons start ; Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light. 7. By a steel-clenched postern door, They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1870 - 414 Seiten
...a supernatural awe and weird grandeur about it which may be best imaged in its own lines: ' He knew by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light.' The poem has more of lyrical fire, and unmitigated, elastic energy, than any of those which succeeded... | |
| REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN - 1870 - 414 Seiten
...supernatural awe and weird grandeur about it which may be best imaged in its own lines : ' He knew by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits 'were riding the northern light.' The poem has more of lyrical fire, and unmitigated, elastic energy, than any of those which succeeded... | |
| REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, DUNDEE - 1871 - 424 Seiten
...supernatural awe and weird grandeur about it which may be best imaged in its own lines : ' He knew by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light! The poem has more of lyrical fire, and unmitigated, elastic energy, than any of those which succeeded... | |
| Paul Hawkins Fisher - 1871 - 408 Seiten
...monk of St. Mary's aisle," she had been a pupil of the dread wizard Michael Scott himself, and " knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light " ; * and how the young ladies crept out into the murky night, on their way home, in the greatest alarm... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie - 1871 - 468 Seiten
...glittering squadrons start ; Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light. 4. By a steel-clench'd postern-door The keystone, that lock'd each ribbed aisle, Was a fleur-de-Iys,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...he looked forth ; And red and bright the streamers light Were dancing in the glowing north. He knew, f mute insensate things. "The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for By a steel-clenched postern door, They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high aloof... | |
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