...springing trout lies still, So darkly glooms yon thunder cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,...

...purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. I-. it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dead, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far I To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,...

...it tho lightning's quivering glance That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and Unce The sun's retiring beams? — I see the dagger-crest...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far I To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,...

...hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mntters deep and dread ? Or echoes from the groaning ground Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far : To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,...

...shroud, The deer has sought the brake ; The small birds will not sing aloud. Benledi's distant hill, s it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and...flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams t 1 see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star Wave o'er the cloud of Sazon war. That...

...darkly glooms yon thunder cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Ii it the thunder's solemn sound • That mutters deep...measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance CAUTO VI. ТПЕ GUARD-ROOM. — I see the dagger-crest of Mar, 1 see the Moray a silver star, Wave...

...is a figure, by which past or future events are represented aa passing before our eyes ; as, " I Bee the dagger-crest of Mar ! I see the Moray's silver...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! " — Scott. 14. Climax is a figure, in which the ideas rise or sink in regular gradation ; as,...

...springing trout lies still ; So darkly glooms yon thunder-cloud, That swathes as with a purple shroud Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn...deep and dread? Or echoes from the groaning ground Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the thicket streams ? Or do they flash on spear and...

...introduce their nouns afterwards; as, 1. "It curl'd not Tweed alone, that breeze."— W. Scott. 2. " Is it the lightning's quivering glance, That on the...streams ; Or do they flash on spear and lance, The nun's retiring beams f"—Id. XVI. They sometimes omit the relative, of the nominative case; as, "...

...hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning grourd The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,...