 | John Milton - 1896 - 226 pàgines
...other four infernal rivers.' — LANDOR. 609. Brink. Surface; like brim in Scott, Marmion 6 : 15: — Not lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim. 610. Fate withstands. Probably a reminiscence of jEn. 4 : 440, Fata obstant. 611. Medusa. Cf. Ovid,... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pàgines
...room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembles on the rise : Not lighter does the swallow skim Along...Lord Marmion reached his band He halts and turns with clinched hand, And shout of loud defiance pours. And shakes his gauntlet at the towers. "Horse! horse!"... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pàgines
...ponderous gate behind him rung: To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Nor lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim; And when Lord Marmion reached... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1898 - 614 pàgines
...ponderous gate behind him rung: To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled...defiance pours, And shook his gauntlet at the towers. Sir Walter Scott. BATTLE OF BEAL' AN DUINE. No cymbal clash'd, no clarion rang, Still were the pipe... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 564 pàgines
...ponderous gate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled...Along the smooth lake's level brim : And when Lord Marrnion reached his band, He halts, and turns with clenched hand, And shout of loud defiance pours,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 532 pàgines
...— What, warder ; ho ! The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Nor lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's...Marmion reached his band He halts, and turns with clinched hand, And shouts of loud defiance pours, And shook his gauntlet at the towers, " Horse ! horse... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 704 pàgines
...gate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Nor lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim : And when Lord Marmion reached... | |
 | Robert Budd Ross, George Byron Catlin - 1898 - 1568 pàgines
...American government and its soldiers. Like Marmion, when he had got outside of the Douglas castle, " His shout of loud defiance pours, And shook his gauntlet at the towers." Then came the ceremony of taking possession. The sixty-five United States troops formed and marched... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pàgines
...ponderous gate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled..." Horse ! horse ! " the Douglas cried, " and chase I * But soon he reined his fury's pace : " A royal messenger he came, Though most unworthy of the name.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1899 - 360 pàgines
...does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim : And when Lord Marmion reach'd his band, 6 He halts, and turns with clenched hand, And shout...horse!" the Douglas cried, "and chase!" But soon he rein'd his fury's pace : 10 "A royal messenger he came, Though most unworthy of the name.A letter forged... | |
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Not lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim : And when Lord Marmion reached his band, He halts, and turns with clenched hand, And shout of loud defiance pours, And shook his gauntlet at the towers. " Horse ! horse ! " the Douglas... 
