 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...the flush of rage O'ercame the ashen hue of age : Fierce he broke forth :—" And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall 3 And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go ?— No, by Saint Bryde of Bothwell, no ! Up drawbridge, grooms—what,... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 412 pages
...again experience such a profound astonishment at any event on earth as each one felt at that moment ; " To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall," would have appeared trifling compared with Dick's daring at this moment. As for the doctor he was so... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Australasia - 1852 - 420 pages
...warning : and to talk of " handcuffs " to a Maori chief in the heart of his native wilds, was, indeed, " To beard the lion in his den— The Douglas in his hall!" a piece of arrogance that deserved correction—but not a cruel death. Again, the dispositions of the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...cheek, the flush of rage O'ercame the ashen hue of age : Fierce he broke forth ; " And da^st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall f And hop'st thou thence +unscathed to go ? No, by St. Bryde of Bothwell, no ! Up drawbridge, grooms,—... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...flush of rage O'ercame the ashen hue of age : Pierce he broke forth : — " And dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall ? And hopest thou hence unscathed to go?— , No ! by Saint Bride of Bothwell, no !— Up drawbridge, grooms... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...Scotland here. Lowland or Highland, far or near, Fierce he broke forth : — " And darest thou, then. To beard the lion in his den, — The Douglas in his hall ? And hopest thou hence unscathed to go ? No, by Saint Bride of Both well, no ! Up drawbridge, 'grooms !... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...his sufferance be, by . . Christian . j example ? — Why, revenge ! Force. 1. And dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, — The Douglas in his...groom ! What ! warder, ho ! Let the portcullis fall ! 2. Awake ! Awake ! Ring the alarum bell : murder and treason ! Banquo and Donalbain ! Malcolm ! Awake... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1855 - 326 pages
...cheek the flush of rage O'ercame the ashen hue of age : Fierce he broke forth : " And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall ? And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go f No, by Saint Bryde of Bothwell, no ! — Up drawbridge, grooms — what, warder ho! Let the portcullis... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 pages
...the flush of rage O'ercame the ashen hue of age : Fierce he broke forth, — " And darest thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall ? And hopest thou hence uuscath'd to go ? — No, by Saint Bride of Bothwell, no ! Up drawbridge, grooms... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...flush of rage O'ercame the ashen hue of age ; Fierce he broke forth : — " And dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, — The Douglas in his...hall ? And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go ? No, by Saint Bride cf Bothwell, no ! Up drawbridge, grooms ! — what, warder, ho ! Let the portcullis fall."... | |
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I tell thee, thou'rt defied! And if thou saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied... 
