 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1891 - 504 pages
...employed -with great effect : " The Border slogan rent the sky I A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — -forced...the bark's mast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouda, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle further, it is obvious that for... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1891 - 328 pages
...the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; 815 As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, 1 Badenoch-man : a man from the district of Badenoch in the Highlands of Scotland. 2 Stanley broke... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 394 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced, forced back, now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 404 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced, forced back, now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Literary style - 1892 - 106 pages
...systematically employed with great effect : "The Border slogan rent the sky I A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows : Advanced — forced...rigging, shrouds and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." 17. Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest effect, not only... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1892 - 500 pages
...systematically employed with great effect : " The Border slogan rent the sky 1 A Home 1 a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced...gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest... | |
 | Herbert Spencer, T. H. Wright - Literary style - 1892 - 104 pages
...systematically employed with great effect : "The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows : Advanced — forced...high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's inast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouds and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." y 17. Pursuing... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Literary style - 1892 - 104 pages
...systematically employed with great effect : "The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon I was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows : Advanced — forced...now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the hark's mast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouds and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." 17. Pursuing... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Literary style - 1892 - 104 pages
...Advanced — forced back — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's niast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouds and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." 17. Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest effect, not only... | |
 | John Nichol - English language - 1893 - 264 pages
...timid and stood still the brave." (4) " The Border slogan rent the sky, A Home ! a Gordon was the cry, Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced, forced back,...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." *12. Is the expression, the "prosody of prose" defensible? How does the rhythm of the following passages... | |
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The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,... 
