 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855
...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 which... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 358 pages
...from fears. Canto iv. St. 30. Art thou a friend to Roderick ? Canto v. St. 10. Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. The Lord of the Tsles. Canto... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 746 pages
...stare, His hack against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — " Come one, come all I 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 which... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 292 pages
...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." SCOTT. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THEY breathe no longer : let their ashes rest ; Clamour unjust and calumny... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880
...knight of Snowdoun's vows (looking first carefully to see that the rock be not a glacier boulder), "This rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I." J. RrrsKEN.* 1 Se* Deucalion, vol. ip 3 (Introduction). ENGLISH VERSUS ALPINE GEOLOGY. (From " The... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857
...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 which... | |
 | 1857
...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 which... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1857 - 415 pages
...used to lean, and while I brandished a beanstalk, ' roar out with Fitzjames, "Come one, come all ; this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !" — ' while I was ready to squall at the sight of a cur, and run valor' ously away from a casually... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1857
...XXVIIL * His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before :— 1 Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !' " Lady of the Lake. OUR battle will be told with greater clearness, if the reader is furnished with... | |
 | English poetry - 1857
...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... | |
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Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. 
