Then gleamed aloft his dagger bright! — — But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game; For, while the dagger gleamed on high, Reeled soul and sense, reeled... The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 5931810Full view - About this book
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...backward threw, Across his brow his hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright!-! — — But hate and fury...stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reeled... | |
| Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...his hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright !-r— But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reeled... | |
| English literature - 1810 - 1018 pages
...• — But hate, and fury ill-supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And Ħill too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reeled soul and sense, reeled brain and ejc, Down-came the blow ! but in the heath... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...bright !— — But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reeled soul and sense, reeled brain and eye. Down came the blow ! but in the heath... | |
| 1811 - 868 pages
...rum blood und mist to clear his sight. Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ! — — But hate und fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide. And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reeled... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...hand he drew, From hlood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleamed aloft his dagger hright ! — — But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage caniCj To turn the odds of deadly game ; For while the dagger gleamed on high, 'Reeled... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...backward threw, Across his brow his hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright!— —But hate and fury ill...stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Reel'd... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...backward threw, Across his brow his hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright ! — But hate and fury ill...stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For, while the dagger gleamed on high Keeled... | |
| Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 582 pages
...his hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger hrighl! — But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the ad vantage came, SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS. For while the dagger gleam d on high. Reel d soul and... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...strain; — down, down, ihey go, The Gael above, Filz-Janu'S below. The chieftain's gripe his ihroat compressed, His knee was planted in his breast; His...supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all loo late the advanlage came, To turn the odds of deadly game; For while the dagger gh-amed on high,... | |
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