 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 páginas
...there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ;' О life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally,...anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness naught descry. XXVI. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast ; And,... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 páginas
...soldier, and the ' gaudia certaminis' of Attila? And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air; O, life and death were in that shout, Recoil — and rally — charge — and rout — And triumph and despair ! " There is even... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...dust, Witn sword-sway, and with lance's thrustAnd such a yell was there, ' Of sudden nnd 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... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 páginas
...sassaybes, and hartebeests, the thunder of whose hoofs, like the distant din of war, sounded in our ears As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. A band of hungry harpies following in our track tripped nimbly up each victim as it fell — completing,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 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 eyo Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVfc At length the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 872 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.' — SCOTT. INKERMANN is emphatically ' a soldier's battle.' The bayonet of the private counted for... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 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...rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 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...the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And trinmph and despair. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 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 ; O life and death were in the shout, Becoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long looked the anxious squires ; their... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 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...rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long looked the anxious squires; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN. 211... | |
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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... 
