The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves: O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew: He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu.... Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay - Página 459de Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 475 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1902 - 642 páginas
...oaks, the fiery herald flew : He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Bight sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, And, ere the day, three hundred hone had met on Clifton down.' The six lines summon up in the brain eight different scenes and associations... | |
| 1832 - 600 páginas
...Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew; He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out...gate looked forth into the night, And saw o'erhanging Richmond-hill the streak of blood-red light. The bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence... | |
| 1833 - 456 páginas
...Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew ; He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out...the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down. Thesentinelon Whitehall gate looked forthinto the night, And saw o'erhanging Richmond-hill the streak... | |
| 1837 - 260 páginas
...Craubourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew; He roused the shepherds of Stonehcnge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out...hundred horse had met on Clifton down; The sentinel on Whiteliall Gate looked forth into the night, And saw o'erhangmg Richmond Hill the streak of blood-red... | |
| 1837 - 538 páginas
...Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew; fie roused the shepherds of Stonehcnge, the rangers of Beaulien. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, And era the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down; The suutiuel on Whitehall Gate looked forth... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 páginas
...Cranbourn's oaks, the fiery herald flew, And roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of JJeaulieu ; Right sharp and quick the bells, all night, rang out from Bristol town. And, ere the day, three thousand horse had met on Clifton Down. The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night,... | |
| Readings - 1843 - 466 páginas
...Cranbourn's oaks, the fiery herald flew; He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out...o'erhanging Richmond Hill the streak of blood-red Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke, And with one start, and with one... | |
| 1843 - 1266 páginas
...oaks, the fiery herald flew: •' rowed the shepterds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beanlieu. *i?»l sharp and quick the bells all night rang out "from Bristol town, hi «e the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton Down ; TWs seatmel on Whitehall Gate looked forth... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 páginas
...shepherds of Stonehenge — the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells rang out, all night, from Bristol town ; And, ere the day, three hundred...looked forth into the night, And saw, o'erhanging Kichmond Hill, that streak of blood-red light. The bugle's note, and cannon's roar, the deathlike silence... | |
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