These fertile plains, that softened 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 this savage hill we... The poetical works of Walter Scott - Стр. 11авторы: sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - Страниц: 848
...pasture« green, With gentle slopes and gravea between : — These fertile plains, that aoften'd Tale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from oar fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ? See, rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1873 - Страниц: 328
...fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between; These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger...we tread, For fatten'd steer, or household bread; much mended under the government of the Earl of Angus : fur though he caused the King to ride through... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - Страниц: 348
...between. These fertile plains, that softened vale Were once the birthright of the Gael. The Saxons came, with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where live the mountain chiefs who hold That plundering Lowland field and fold, Is aught but retribution... | |
| Walter Scott - 1874 - Страниц: 660
...groves between : These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birth-right of the Grael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers...fell o'er fell. Ask we this savage hill we tread, For fattened steer or household bread : Ask we for flocks these shingles dry, And well the mountain might... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - Страниц: 828
...green, With gentle slopes and groves between ; These fertile plains, that sofien'd vnle, Were once tlie s fatten 'd steer or household bread ; Ask we for flocks these shingles dry, And well the mountain might... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - Страниц: 622
...and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between. XIX. These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger...See rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell. Where live the mountain chiefs who hold That plundering lowland field and fold Is aught but retribution... | |
| Education Department,London - 1876 - Страниц: 1010
...and pastures green With gentle slopes, and groves between :— These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger...from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now I See, rudely swell Crag over crag, fell over fell. Ask we this savage hill we tread, For fattened... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - Страниц: 608
...history who, gazing upon the cultivated Lowlands, exclaimed : — " These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger...with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land ; " these fierce warriors " sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as they may, And from the robber rend... | |
| James Torrington S. Lidstone - 1876 - Страниц: 150
...be spread among the people, who will adapt the words from The Lady of the Lake to themselves, — " The stranger came with Iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Think'st thon we will not sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as we may, ALLAN C. WYLIE AND CO., ENGINEERS,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - Страниц: 688
...fields and pastures green. With gentle slopes and groves between ; These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birth-right of the Gael ; The...fell o'er fell. Ask we this savage hill we tread, For fattened steer or household bread : Ask we for flocks these shingles dry, And well the mountain might... | |
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