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" To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse-winded, blowing far and keen :— Forthwith the hubbub... "
Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-lore - Page 283
by Walter Keating Kelly - 1863 - 308 pages
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Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 2

James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 582 pages
...fwain tradition tells) Were wont, with clans and ready vaflals throng'd, To wake the bounding flag, or guilty wolf; There oft is heard at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but riling ftill more loud And nearer, voice of hunters and of hounds, And horns, hoarfe-winded, blowing...
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Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and ...

James Beattie - Classical education - 1779 - 536 pages
...fwain tradition tells) Were wont, with clans and ready vaflais throng'd, To wake the bounding flag, or guilty wolf; There oft is heard at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rifing ftill more loud And nearer, voice of hunters and of hounds, And horns, hoarfe-winded, blowing...
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2

Natham Drake - English literature - 1800 - 510 pages
...quoted by Dr. Beattie in his Essay on Poetry and Music from a work now neglected and unknown. E'er since of old the haughty Thanes of Ross (So to the...throng'd, To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf i There oft is heard at midnight or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud And nearer,...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 20

1805 - 456 pages
...philosophy would make but an awkward figure, may sometimes have a charming effect in poetry.] E'er since of old the haughty thanes of Ross, (So to the...tradition tells) Were wont, with clans and ready vassals jhrong'd To wake the bounding stag, or guilty*wolf ; There oft is heard at midnight, or at noon, Beginning...
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Ballads and Lyrical Pieces

Walter Scott - 1806 - 198 pages
...elsewhere called Saint Hubert. of -this phantom chace, as it was heard In the wilds of Ross-shire. " Ere since, of old, the haughty thanes of Ross,— So to...tells,— Were wont with clans, and ready vassals thronged, To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning...
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Ballads and Lyrical Pieces

Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1812 - 272 pages
...called Saint Hubert. of this phantom chace, as it was heard in the wilds of Ross-shire : •• Ere since, of old, the haughty thanes of Ross, — So...the simple swain tradition tells, — Were wont with cl»ns, and ready vassals thronged, To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard,...
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The poetical works of Walter Scott, Volume 2

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 272 pages
...following fine poetical description of this phantom chace, as it was heard in the wilds of Ross-shire. "Ere since, of old, the haughty thanes of Ross, — So...tells, — Were wont with clans, and ready vassals thronged, To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning...
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Miscellaneous poems. The lord of the isles, canto 1-5

Walter Scott - 1822 - 410 pages
...fine poetical description of this phantom chace, as it was heard in the wilds of Ross-shire. " Ere since, of old, the haughty Thanes of Ross, — So...tells,— Were wont with clans, and ready vassals throng' d, To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon,...
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Ballads and lyrical pieces, Issue 231

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 242 pages
...fine poetical description of this phantom chace, as it was heard in the wilds of Rossshire. « Ere since , of old , the haughty thanes of Ross, — So...with clans , and ready vassals throng'd. To wake the hounding stag , or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising...
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Walter Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 1830 - 372 pages
...imbodied by the nameless author of " Albania :" — "There, since of old the haughty Thanes of Ross Were wont, with clans and ready vassals throng'd,...at midnight or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising stlll more loud, And louder, voice of hunters, and of bounds, And horns hoarse-winded, blowing far...
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