 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
 | 1910 - 874 pàgines
...whirls along with a cyclonic rhythm that sets the feet to tramping and the blood to boiling. And §uch here was none of nobler disposition than Sir Henry...perfect sincerity, — How happy is he bor" requirin were in the shout. Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. This particular band... | |
 | Peter Faulkner, Peter Preston, William Morris Society - 1999 - 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 portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ... 'Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!' Were the last words of Marmion.4 Martial and physical... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pàgines
...kelidon: the swallow, celandine. Gc, gale; nightingale; the n is intrusive, for easier flow, yell, yelp. And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. — Scott, Marmion ghel II: cut. geld, gelding, gilt: young sow. g(h)enu: angle, bend; hence (in Latin),... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 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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