 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...just, Firm to his principles and trust, Nor hopes nor fears can blind. Walsh. Come one, come all — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. Scutt. FISH. 299 FISH— FISHING. BLEST silent groves! O may ye be For ever mirth's best nursery! May... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before :— " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." — . Sir Roderick mark'd — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy... | |
 | Frederick William Shelton - American fiction - 1853 - 374 pages
...and his language was like that of the warrior who placed his face to the foe : " Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." What wonder that the grasp and comprehension of such a mind, should provoke remark from those cooped... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - English poetry - 1853 - 334 pages
...stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." — Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | Andrew O'Reilly - Ireland - 1853 - 336 pages
...and calmly waiting the approaching host, with the determination of Fitzjames : " Come one, come all. This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I ;" and of his standing erect within the gorge, and he with his single hand slaying in succession four... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...stare ; His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his fool before : — " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." — Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
 | Fanny Fern - 1854 - 420 pages
...terra-firma as if there were a stratum of loadstone beneath him, and thunders out, " Come one, come all ; this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I." FERN MUSINGS. I NEVER was on an august school committee, but, if I was^ I 'd make a sine-qua-non that... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1855 - 510 pages
...Roderick Dhu gathering about him, and in proud indignation exclaims with him, " Come one, come all , this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !" History, the chronicler of the past, has preserved for the undying veneration of mankind the names... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Antislavery movements - 1855 - 862 pages
...exposed. It was then that he often reminded me of that glowing passage — ' Come one, come all — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.' " I should not do him justice in thus speaking of his courage if I neglected to mention that combined... | |
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Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. 
