 | Guy Noel Pocock - 1925 - 268 páginas
...sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night, And saw o'erhanging Richmond Hill the streak of blood-red light. Then bugle's note and cannon's...the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires ; From all the batteries of the Tower pealed loud the voice of fear; And all the thousand masts of... | |
 | 1927 - 490 páginas
...looked forth into the night, And saw, o'erhanging Richmond Hill, that streak of blood-red light: The bugle's note, and cannon's roar, the death-like silence...the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires; From all the batteries of the Tower pealed loud the voice of fear, And all the thousand masts of Thames... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1928 - 204 páginas
...sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night, And saw o'erhanging Richmond Hill the streak of blood-red light. Then bugle's note and cannon's...the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires ; From all the batteries of the Tower peeled loud the voice of fear ; And all the thousand masts of... | |
 | 604 páginas
...the great historian-bard tells how the tidings of the foe's approach was flashed over the land. " The bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence...one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke." Of a very different rhythm, but not much shorter, is that which we always associate with Scott's lines... | |
 | 1883 - 810 páginas
...looked forth into the night, And saw, o'erhanglng Richmond Hill that streak of blood-red light. The bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence...And with one start and with one cry the royal city awoke . . . And eastward Htraight, for wild Blackheath, the warlike errand went ; And roused in many... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1999 - 372 páginas
...just for emphasis. 'With one shout and with one cry': misquoted from Macaulay's 'The Armada', 1832: 'And with one start and with one cry, the royal city woke'. 86 minute-gun: gun fired at intervals of a minute. "Tis but a little faded flower': song by Ellen Clementine... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - 553 páginas
...sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night, And saw o'erhanging Richmond Hill the streak of blood-red light. Then bugle's note and cannon's...the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires; From all the batteries of the Tower pealed loud the voice of fear; And all the thousand masts of Thames... | |
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Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the deathlike silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke. At once on all her stately gates arose the answering fires; At once the wild alarum... 
