 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pàgines
...close, in clouds of smoke and dnst, 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... | |
 | 1875 - 466 pàgines
...through the air, ending frequently in a sharp cr^ck, as of an explosion, is accompanied by wild yells, ' as if men fought upon the earth, and fiends in upper ' air,' in which, although the language is for most part unintelligible, you can discern the notes of triumph... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pàgines
...They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was indness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or dist . . . Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 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; O ! life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 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...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 looked the anxious... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 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 : O, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout. And triumph and despair.... | |
 | Frank Peel - 1888 - 366 pàgines
...Dragon, now the George. CHAPTER X. THE ATTACK ON CAHTWRIGHT'S MILL. And such a yell was there, Of suadcn and portentous birth. As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air.— Sir Walter Scott. Wo loft the rioters about sixty paces from the mill, resolved to make the attack... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 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; О life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
 | Charlton Thomas Lewis - 1890 - 838 pàgines
..."They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, mid with lance's thrust; And such n yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air." The king built of the trappings of his horsemen a funeral pyre, to burn himself and his nearest friends,... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pàgines
...clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a veil was there Of sadden 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... | |
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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! 
