 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 360 pages
...men arose, and clashed their armour; while a voice, like that of a giant, pronounced these words : Woe to the coward that ever he was born Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn. Subsequent to this, Sir Walter proceeds to narrate another kindred tradition. The incidents of this... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 382 pages
...seize the enchanted sword ; but at the same moment a voice pronounced aloud the mysterious words : — Woe to the coward, that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn ! At the same time a whirlwind of irresistible fury howled through the long hall, bore the unfortunate... | |
 | Children's literature, English - 1863 - 348 pages
...rising like thunder above the stamping of steeds and the clash of steel, pronounced the words — " Woe to the coward that ever he was born, "Who did not draw the sword before he blow the horn." PUZZLES, ETC. MEN OF THE TШE. У a.1. О m A. NKE GLH ï EO B Ко. 2. H 8 Ж D LPNG... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 408 pages
...seize the enchanted sword ; but at the same moment a voice pronounced aloud the mysterious words : — Woe to the coward, that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn ! At the same time a whirlwind of irresistible fury howled through the long hall, bore the unfortunate... | |
 | John George Edgar - Animals - 1865 - 120 pages
...rising like thunder above the stamping of steeds and the clash of steel, pronounced the words : — " Woe to the coward that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn." THE DRAGON OF THE DRACHENFELS. A CCORDING to a tradition connected with the Drachenfels on -£\_ the... | |
 | 1868 - 556 pages
...re-awakening of Arthur and his knights, but only to be cast forth amid the thunders of the fateful words : — "Woe to the coward that ever he was born. Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn." From Melrose we again sot out, and journey, it may unfortunately be at railway speed, down the Tweed,... | |
 | 1868 - 874 pages
...of Arthur and his knights, but only to be cast forth amid the thunders of the fateful words : — " Woe to the coward that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horu. " From Melrose we again set out, and journey, it may unfortunately be at railway speed, down... | |
 | John Stuart Stuart-Glennie - Scotland - 1869 - 184 pages
...re-awakening of Arthur and his knights, but only to be cast forth, amid the thunders of the fateful words:— "Woe to the Coward that ever he was born, Who did not draw the Sword, before he blew the Horn." 6 1 61 Four Ancient Books, v. I. p. 55. n Ibid. v. I. pp. 343-4. 63 Ibid. v. II. p. 412. And hence... | |
 | Military art and science - 1870 - 390 pages
...nach dem verzauberten Schwerle zu greifen, doch da hörte er eine geisterhafte Stimme rufen: „Woe lo the coward, that ever he was born, „Who did not draw the sword, before he blew the hörn, was auf deutsch heissl: „Weh" dem Feigling, dass er jemals ward gebor'n, „Der nicht das... | |
 | Hillside rhymes, John Veitch - English poetry - 1872 - 140 pages
...trumpetsound break the wizard spell that holds the heroes of the past in their enchanted sleep. ' ' Woe to the coward that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn. " Printed by Robert MacLehose. Just Published, in Crown 4to, price £\, 11s. 6d., cloth, SIR ISAAC... | |
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Woe to the coward, that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn! 
