 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pagine
...answered with disdainful smile, — " Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...Were once the birth-right of the Gael ; The stranger come with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ! See, rudely swell Crag... | |
 | 1811 - 872 pagine
...succession gay, Deep waving fields and pastures green, With gentle slope« and groves between ¡— i Those fertile plains, that softened vale. Were, once the birth-right of the Gael; The .stranger саше wiih iron hand. And from our futhers reft the land. Where dwell we now? see rudely swell Cn'.g... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pagine
...answer'd with disdainful smile,— " Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I mark'd thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...and groves between :— These fertile plains, that soften d vale, Were once the birth-right of the Gael; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pagine
...described in the verse of Sir Walter Scott. The Caffre chief would exclaim, like Roderick Dhu : — " ' These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael. Where dwells he now ? * * * Think 'st thou we will not sally forth To spoil the spoiler as we may,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pagine
...answer'd with disdainful smile, — " Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I mark'd thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...and groves between : — These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birth-right of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, V And from... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pagine
...answered with disdainful smile, — ' Saxon, from yonder mountain high I marked thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between : F These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birth-right of the Gael ; The stranger... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pagine
...with disdainful smile,— «Saxon, from yonder mountain high» T inark'd lh«'C send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in succession gay, Пегр w.iving lields and pastures given, Willi gentle slopes and groves between: — Thirst! fertile... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pagine
...foul conflict borne. Sold. Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye, O'er waving fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes,...softened vale Were once the birthright of the Gael. The Saxons came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now? see rudely swell... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pagine
...with disdainful smile, — •• Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I mark'd thee send delighted eye, Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in...and groves between : — These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birth-right of the Gael; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our... | |
 | 1837 - 580 pagine
...Indians ! Like them, they were the original possessors of the suil, and roved in lawless freedom : ' Far to the south and east, where lay Extended in succession...that softened vale, Were once the birth-right of the Gtiel ; The stranger came, with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land.' And as Roderick continues,... | |
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These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael : The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ! See, rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell. Ask we... 
