 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.) - 1885 - 366 Seiten
...glittering squadrons start ; Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. Ho 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 154 Seiten
...glittering squadrons start ; Sudden the flying jennet wheel, 90 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 168 Seiten
...glittering squadrons start ; Suddenly the flying jennet wheel, 90 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 ; 95 The darkened roof rose... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 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. IX. By a steel-clenched postern door, They enter'd now the chancel tall ; The key-stone, that lock'd... | |
 | 1897 - 496 Seiten
...reminiscenz an Ossian. Der dichter sagt hier von dem mönche, der den abendhimmel betrachtet : He knew. by the streamers that shot so bright. That spirits were riding the northern light. Die Vorstellung von geistern, die auf lichtstrahlen sitzen, gehört ganz der ossianischen weit an.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 Seiten
...glittering squadrons start ; a 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. »The cloisters were frequently used as places of sepulture. An instance occurs in Dryburgh Abbey,... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - 1903 - 464 Seiten
...glittering squadrons start, 90 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 95 They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high... | |
 | Cora Linn Morrison Daniels - 1903 - 592 Seiten
...he looked forth. And red and white the streamers bright Were dancing in the glowing north. He knew by the streamers that shot so bright That spirits were riding the northern light." (Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel.) Milton speaks of fairy ladies who dance on the hearth at the time... | |
 | John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley - 1903 - 142 Seiten
...(common). — The Aurora Borealis ; Northern Lights. 1805. SCOTT, Lay of Last Minstrel, ii. 8. He knew, by the STREAMERS that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light. STREAM'S - TOWN, subs. phr. (venery). — The female pudendum : cf. MONOSYLLABLE (GROSE). See TIPPERARY... | |
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