 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!  The castles and abbeys of England - Pàgina 66per William Beattie - 1844 - 10 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pàgines
...weapon-point they close.— Thev close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there. Of sudden and...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air ; О life and death were in the shout, Hecoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pàgines
...weapon -point 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...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pàgines
...weapon-point 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 birth, 30 As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pàgines
...weapon-point 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...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long look'd the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. * * * * [The two squires,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pàgines
...With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And snch a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous hirth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air ; Oh ! life and death were in the shont, Recoil and rally, charge and ront, And triumph and despair. Long looked the anxious... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pàgines
...weapon-point 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...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; 0 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. 5.... | |
 | 1871 - 910 pàgines
...smoke and dust; with sword-sway and with lance's thrust." Again, we catch the din of battle : — • And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. And when " the shroud of battle is cast " aside, and we look in upon it, " the ridge of mingled spears,"... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 pàgines
...clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, 480 Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon...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... | |
 | Gilbert Malcolm Sproat - 1871 - 144 pàgines
...weapon-point 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 birth, As if men fought upon the earth, Aside the shroud of battle cast; And, first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud... | |
 | 1871 - 930 pàgines
...sword-sway and with lance's thrust" Again, we catch the din of battle : — And such a yell was tLere Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. And when " the shroud of battle is cast " aside, and we look in upon it, "the ridge of mingled spears,"... | |
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