 | Walter Scott - 1810 - Страниц: 454
...full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed. Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toiled the blood-hounds staunch ; Nor nearer might... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - Страниц: 408
...full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatched for courage, breath and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toiled the blood-hounds stanch ; Nor nearer might... | |
 | 1850 - Страниц: 510
...hunters : — " Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatched for courage, strength, and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toiled the bloodhounds staunch." And in " The Noble... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - Страниц: 580
...weeks for Ganteaume's arrival. He could do neither, but hurried back to Europe, while Nelson ' Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ;' and while the Admiralty, warned of his return, stationed Calder to meet him and frustrate his third... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - Страниц: 108
...full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatch'd for courage, breath, and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toil'd the bloodhounds stanch ; Nor nearer might... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - Страниц: 540
...full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's ' breed, Unmatch'd for courage, breath, and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For. scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toil'd the blood-hounds staunch ; Nor nearer might... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1845 - Страниц: 642
...pursuit of two of these high-born dames, a Madame von Kalb, and an Emilie von Berlepsh, who ' Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game,' and of the manner in which Jean Paul, in spite of his endeavours to be grateful, and of all the fine... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - Страниц: 468
...full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toiled the blood-hounds staunch ; Nor nearer might... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - Страниц: 170
...outline of its shores is beautiful * Camlna-more, a mansion and by one mile and a half in breadth, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game; For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toil'd the bloodhounds stanch; Nor nearer might... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - Страниц: 594
...full in viewo Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toiled the bloodhounds staunch; Nor nearer might... | |
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Nor nearer might the dogs attain, Nor farther might the quarry strain. Thus up the margin of the lake, Between the precipice and brake, O'er stock and rock their race they take. 
