 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1855 - 704 páginas
...there, Of sudden and portentous birth. As if men fuught upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh ! life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair ! ' tenes for a time seemed futile ; for all vacancies were promptly filled, and they continued to... | |
 | John Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1855 - 142 páginas
...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." J/armwm. The Scottish right wing, consisting chiefly of Highlanders under the Earls of Lennox and Argyle,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 páginas
...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 ;' 0 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 páginas
...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, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 páginas
...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 I life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and roat, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 páginas
...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. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | 1910 - 964 páginas
...the feet to tramping and the blood to boiling. And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth. As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout. And triumph and despair. This... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 páginas
...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 1 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 páginas
...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. &*> Long looked the anxious squires; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 páginas
...magnificence of effect, — with this of Mr. Scott's."— JEFFREY.] 3 [This couplet is not in the MS.] As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; l • Oh, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
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King James did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until 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 birth... 
