| 1808 - 556 pągines
...of fmoke and duft, With fword-fway, and with lance's thruft ; And fuch a yell was there, Of fudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious fquires ; their eye Could in the darknefs nought defcry. At length the frelhening... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pągines
...they close. — They close in cloud* of smoke and dust, With •word-sway.and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Longlmikcdthcanxioussejuircs; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
| Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pągines
...they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVII. At length the... | |
| 1808 - 732 pągines
...clouds of fmoke and dutt, With fword-fway and with lance's thruft, And fuch a yell was there, Of fudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious fquires, the« eye Could in the darknefs nought defcry. «« At length the... | |
| 1809 - 914 pągines
...they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Ixing looked the anxious squires; their cy Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pągines
...they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their cyy Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pągines
...they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
| William Tennant - 1814 - 274 pągines
...and drone was there,* As if on earth men pip'd, and devils dron'd in air, * Such a yell was there, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. SCOTT'S Jtfff •••"•'•"'• XXVI. Thus did the crowd with fiddle, lungs and drone, Congratulate... | |
| Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pągines
...With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous hirth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pągines
...his mountain-throne They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lances thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
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