 For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire , Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of...  A guide to the coasts of Devon & Cornwall - Página 461por Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1859Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Bennett George Johns - 1849 - 268 páginas
...and busy as the day ; For swift to East and swift to West the warning radiance spread ; High on S. Michael's Mount it shone, it shone on Beachy Head....cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire . ****** And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, As fast from every village round... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 páginas
...Spaniard saw, along each southern spread— High on St. Michael's Mount it shone—it shone on Beachy shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling...left his skiff to rock on Tamar's ! glittering waves, The rugged miners pour'd to war, from Mendip's 3 sunless herald flew — He roused the shepherds of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1851 - 260 páginas
...bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head....left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves: O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 páginas
...bright and busy as the day ; For swift to east and swift to west the warning radiance gpread ; High on St. Michael's Mount it shone — it shone on Beachy...left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves, The ragged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunlesa caves. O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 páginas
...day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread ; High on St. Michael's Mount l it shone : it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep...left his skiff to rock on Tamar's* glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves : O'er Longleat's towers3, o'er Cranbourne's... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 páginas
...swift to west, the warning radiance spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone — it shone on Beechy Head; Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each...left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves, The rugged miners pour'd to war from Mendip's sunless caves ; O'er Longleat's tow'rs, o'er Cranbourn's... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...warning radiance8 spread — High on St. Michael's Mount it shone — it shone on Beachy llead. Far o'er the deep, the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire,...points of fire, The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamer's glittering waves, The rugged miners poured to war, from Mendip's sunless caves : O'er Lougleat's... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - 1851 - 314 páginas
...spread. High on St. Michael's mount it shone, it shone on Beachy-head : Far in the deep the Spaniards saw along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape in endless range, those twinkling points of fire. ****** Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lovely height, Till streamed in crimson... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1852 - 562 páginas
...bright and busy as the day ; For swift to east, and swift to west, the warning radiance spread ; High on St. Michael's Mount it shone, — it shone on Beachy...endless range, those twinkling points of fire." The result is well known. The light English vessels hovered about the unwieldy ships of the armada, crippling... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 430 páginas
...bright and busy as the day ; For swift to east, and swift to west, the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone : it shone on Beachy...in endless range, those twinkling points of fire." Eeference is also made to this means of communication in the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," where the... | |
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