 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pàgines
...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 birth, 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. At length the freshening... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pàgines
...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 birth, As if 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...They close iu clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was , Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pàgines
...close, in clouds of smoke and dust. With sword-sway, and with lance's tbrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in their darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - 602 pàgines
...steered by BULL, who, this day, 'bears the Bell!' In he ' goes, — and " Oh! just such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth ; As if men fought upon, the enrth, j And fiends in the upper air, Oh life and death were in the shout, Kucoil and rally, charge... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 306 pàgines
...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 birth, As if men fought...earth, And fiends in upper air ; Oh ! life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long look'd the anxious... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pàgines
...They close in clouds of Biuoke and dust, With sword sway, and with lance's thrust. And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ." We need not, however, quote more of a passage so familiar ; but it will be observed how admirably... | |
 | 1907 - 708 pàgines
...travesty of some lines in Scott's ' Marmion,' VI. xxv., which are as follows : — And such a yell was there. Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. w. с. в. [Mu. T. BAYNE and MR. A. RUSSELL also thanked for replies.] EARLIEST BBITISH Music PUBLISHER... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pàgines
...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 ; O, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout^ And triumph and despair.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pàgines
...of smoke and dust, With swcnl-sway and with lance's thrust ; And sucli a yell was there, Of audden YXX9 \ Long looked the anxious squires ; their eve Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
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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 birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh! 
