 | Charles Buxton - 1855 - 862 Seiten
...hostility to which he was exposed. It was then that he often reminded me of that glowing passage — ' Come one, come all — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.' " I should not do him justice in thus speaking of his courage if I neglected to mention that combined... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 Seiten
...his haughty stare ; His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one, come all ! — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." SCOTT. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THEY breathe no longer : let their ashes rest ; Clamour unjust and calumny... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...brightest when it dawns from fears. Canto iv. St. 30. Art thou a friend to Roderick ? Canto v. St. 10. Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. The Lord of the Tsles. Canto... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 442 Seiten
...knight of Snowdoun's vows (looking first carefully to see that the rock be not a glacier boulder), "This rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I." J. RrrsKEN.* 1 Se* Deucalion, vol. ip 3 (Introduction). ENGLISH VERSUS ALPINE GEOLOGY. (From " The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 Seiten
...stare, His hack against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one, come all I this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one ! come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 362 Seiten
...his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 436 Seiten
...' one of which I used to lean, and while I brandished a beanstalk, ' roar out with Fitzjames, "Come one, come all ; this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !" — ' while I was ready to squall at the sight of a cur, and run valor' ously away from a casually... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1857 - 452 Seiten
...belonged. CHAPTER XXVIIL * His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before :— 1 Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !' " Lady of the Lake. OUR battle will be told with greater clearness, if the reader is furnished with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 Seiten
...his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
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Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. 
