 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stare Did wander darkling iu tho eternal space, Raylese, and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. Very High. I awoke :— where was I ?— Do I see A human face look down on mo ? And doth a roof above... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...Chief his haughty 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...Chief his haughty 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... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the start, Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went— and came and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinders - 1815 - 324 pages
...dream. The bright sun was extinguish^, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 pages
...The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Ray less, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no dayT And men forgot their passions in the dread... | |
 | England - 1866 - 830 pages
...justified. She could now set her back against her rock, and face her assailants, as Fitz-James did. " Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I," might have been her utterance ; but she was not in a defiant mood. She kissed all her counsellors that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pages
...dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chill'd... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 pages
...dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...haughty 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 warriors... | |
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air... 
