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
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pàgines
...weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's d ! " I shrieked, upstarting, — "Get thee back into the tempest and the night's Pl u[K>n the earth And fiends in upper air : 0 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pàgines
...weapon-point they close. — Thev close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With 6word-*way, and with lance's thrust And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; Oh I life and death were in the shout, Becoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
| 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
...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...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
...battle-piece : "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...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... | |
| Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pàgines
...at 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...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... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 394 pàgines
...at 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...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... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 404 pàgines
...at 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...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... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1891 - 300 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...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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