| Joseph Cottle - 1847 - 558 páginas
...his shield a star, Round, like two flaming meteors, rolls his eyes, Stamps with his iron foot, aud sounds to war : She sits upon a rock, She bends before...freedom triumphing over power. If the merits of the Rowlcian Controversy rested solely on this one piece, it would be decisive ; for no man, in the least... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1847 - 416 páginas
...on, And, closely mantled, guides it 10 his crown, His long sharp spe'ir, his spreading shield, i • gone; He falls, and falling, rolleth thousands down."...Controversy rested solely on this one piece, it would he decisive ; for no man, in the least degree familiar with our earlier metrical compositions, and... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1847 - 562 páginas
...two flaming: meteors, rolls his eyes, Stamps with his iron foot, and sounds to war : She sits npou a rock, She bends before his spear ; She rises from...thousands down." Every reader must be struck with the modem character of these extracts, nor can he fail to have noticed the lyrical measure, so eminently... | |
| William Howitt - 1856 - 596 páginas
...She rises with the shock, Wielding her own in air. Hard as the thunder doth she drive it on ; Wit, closely mantled, guides it to his crown, His long,...gone : He falls, and falling, rolleth thousands down. War, gore-faced War, by Envy armed, arist,* His fiery helmet nodding to the air. Ten bloody arrows... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 528 páginas
...the shock, Wielding her own in air. Hard as the thunder doth she drive it on ; Wit skilly wimpled 9 guides it to his crown ; His long sharp spear, his...gone ; He falls, and falling rolleth thousands down. War, gore-faced War, by envy burl'd,10 arist His fiery helm nodding to the air, Ten bloody arrows in... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 494 páginas
...the shock, Wielding her own in air. Hard as the thunder doth she drive it on ; Wit skilly wimpled 9 guides it to his crown ; His long sharp spear, his...gone ; He falls, and falling rolleth thousands down. War, gore-faced War, by envy burl'd,i6 arist His fiery helm nodding to the air, Ten bloody arrows in... | |
| William Howitt - 1857 - 736 páginas
...air. Hard as the thunder doth she drive It on; Wit, closely mantled, guides it to his crown, — Hia long sharp spear, his spreading shield is gone; He falls, and falling, rolleth thousands down. War, gore-faced War, by Envy armed, arist,t His fiery helmet nodding to the air. Ten bloody arrows... | |
| William Howitt - 1863 - 726 páginas
...Wielding her own in air. Hard as the thunder doth she drive it on ; Wit, closely mantled, guides it to hU crown,— His long sharp spear, his spreading shield...gone; He falls, and falling, rolleth thousands down. War, gore-faced War, by Envy armed, arist.t His fiery helmet nodding to the air. Ten bloody arrows... | |
| Thomas Chatterton - 1865 - 310 páginas
...spear, She rises from the shock, Wielding her own in air. Hard as the thunder doth she drive it on, Wit, closely mantled, guides it to his crown ; His long...gone, He falls, and falling, rolleth thousands down. War, gore-faced War, by Envy armed, arist,i His fiery helm nodding to the air, Ten bloody arrows in... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 páginas
...from the shock, Wielding her own in air. Hard as the thunder doth she drive it on ; Wit skilly wimpled guides it to his crown ; His long sharp spear, his spreading shield is gone ; He falls and falling rollcth thousands down. War, gore-faced war, by stands with burl'd wrist His fiery helm nodding to... | |
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