 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
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...Gael above, Fitz-James below. The chieftain's gripe his throat compressed ; His knee was planted on his breast ; • His clotted locks he backward threw,...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... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...Gael above, Fitz-Jatnes below. The Chieftain's gripe his throat compressed, His knee was planted on his breast ; His clotted locks he backward threw,...stream of life's exhausted tide. And all too late the 'vantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game ; For while the dagger gleamed on high, Reel'd soul... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 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, Reel'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 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, wlu'le the dagger gleam'd on high, Reel'd... | |
 | Charles Mitchell Charles - 1855 - 322 pages
...listened. A loud knocking was heard. " It is at the outer door," he said. CHAP. III. THE ENCOUNTEK. But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came. Lady of the Lake. EXCITED though he was by the tale which his uncle was pouring... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 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, Reel'd... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...Gael above, Fitz-James below. The chieftain's gripe his throat compressed ; His knee was planted on his breast ; His clotted locks he backward threw,...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...who fear to die.' Like mountain-cat who guards her young, Full at Fitz-James's throat he sprung."] —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, Reel'd... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...his hand he drew, From blood and mist to clear his sight, Then gleam'd aloft his dagger bright 1 — 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 362 pages
...die.' — 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, ReePd soul and sense, reel'd brain and eye. Down came the blow ! but in the heath... | |
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