 The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And — STANLEY ! was the cry : — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted...  Marmion - Pàgina 285per Sir Walter Scott - 1899 - 355 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1808 - 416 pàgines
...And — STANLEY ! was the cry ; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment...On, Stanley, on !' Were the last words of Marmion." P. 366. No painter, worthy of the name, can- read that description, and sleep till he has embodied... | |
 | 1808 - 596 pàgines
...visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the. fragnjent of his blade, And shouted '< Victory ! — " Charge,...) On, Stanley, on !"• — Were the last words of Marjnion.' pp. 365, 366. We have not room for another quotation, and scarcely for another remark. In... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 pàgines
...he held it out to the last, like a brave fellow, without any flinching or twitching of conscience. With dying hand above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted " victory." which, with the rest of his last words, though we must allow it t» be excellent poetry, contains but... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pàgines
...gale, And— STANLEY ! was the cry; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment...Stanley, on !". . . . Were the last words of Marmion." p. 366. The lady is now hurried away by the priest ; and the close of the day ia thus described, with... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pàgines
...gale, And — STANLEY! was the cry;— A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment...Stanley, on !". . . . Were the last words of Marmion." p. 366. The lady is now hurried away by the priest ; and the close of the day is thus described, with... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pàgines
...And iirtd his glazing i-ус : Willi ching hand, above his head He shook the fragment of his Made, .And shouted "Victory!— « Charge. Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!'— Were the last words of Mai mien." We almost grudge to a knave guilty of forgery the glorious death of a Wolfe and a Nelson.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pàgines
...And — STANLEY ! was the cry ; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment...Stanley, on !" . . . Were the last words of Marmion. CANTO vi. THE BATTLE. 367 XXXIII. By !*MS, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the battle's deadly... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pàgines
...gale, And — STANLEY! was the cry; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye : With dying hand, above his head He shook the fragment...On, Stanley, on ."' Were the last words of Marmion. Ode to Buonaparte, by LORD BYKON, I. 'TIS done — but yesterday a King ! And arm'd with kings to strive.... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1815 - 362 pàgines
...while the words enlisted to form a jingle are strained and unpoetical in the extreme : witness " ' Charge, Chester, charge ! — on, Stanley, on !' — Were the last words of Mar-mi-on." In reply to which, one might well exclaim — Charge, Hazard, charge ! — Quack on, quack on! O !... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pàgines
...gale, And Stanley ! was the cry. AIR. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fir'd his glaring eye ; With dying hand above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted victory ! TALK NOT OF LOVE. TALE not of love, it gives me pain, For love has been my foe; He bound me with... | |
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