 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 páginas
...Scowled at the narrow way 266 ELOCUTION. Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied,...bridge hangs tottering Above the boiling tide. "Come buck, come back, Horatius ! " Loud cried the Fathers all. " Back, Lartius ! back, Herminius ! Back,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 páginas
...hatred, Scowled at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. USL But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied, And now the bridge hnngs tottering Above the boiling tide. " Come bnck, come back, Horatius I " Loud cried the Fathers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 324 páginas
...Horatius!" Loud cried the Fathers all. "Back, Lartius ! back, Herminius! Back, ere the ruin fall !" Uv. Back darted Spurius Lartius ; Herminius darted back : And, as they passed, beneath their l'ee> But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 páginas
...more Campania's hinds shall fly To woods and caverns when they spy Thy thrice accursed sail.' •* But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied...Loud cried the Fathers all. ' Back, Lartius! back, Herminiua 1 Back, ere the ruin fall!' " Back darted Spurius Lartius ; Herminius darted back: And, as... | |
 | 1872 - 900 páginas
...and hatred, Scowled at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. d both of wliom are called Donlkarnein, or tile Two-Horned,...beinp an Oriental syinl>ol of power. One of these Herminias ! Back, ere the ruin fall ! " Back darted Spurius Lartius, — Herminius darted back ; And,... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 páginas
...flew From all the vanguard rose: And forth three chiefs came spurring To win the narrow way. ***** But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied;...back, come back, Horatius ! " Loud cried the fathers til. "Back, Lartius! back, Heiminius! Back, ere the ruin fall! " Back darted Spurius Lartius ; Herminius... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 páginas
...home I Why dost thou stay, and turn away T Here lies the road to Home." But meanwhile axe and leTer Have manfully been plied, And now the bridge hangs...back, Horatius ! " Loud cried the Fathers all. "Back, Lartiusl back, I Termini 113 I Back, ere the ruin fall I " Back darted Spurius Lartius ; llorminms... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 438 páginas
...sprang, their swords they drew, And lifted high their shields, and flew To win the narrow pass. And meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied,...tottering Above the boiling tide. " Come back, come back, Horatins 1" Loud cried the Fathers all. " Back, Lartins ! back, Herminins I Back, ere the ruin fall... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 páginas
...sound of laughter was heard among the foes; A wild and wrathful clamour from all the vanguard rose. But meanwhile axe and lever have manfully been plied...beneath their feet, they felt the timbers crack : But with a crash like thunder fell every loosened beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck lay right athwart... | |
 | William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 páginas
...Sextus, though he hates them so, and they call to him with taunts to come on , does not dare. LIII. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied...Lartius, back, Herminius ! Back, ere the ruin fall." LIV. Back darted Spurius Lartius, Herminius darted back ; And as they passed, beneath their feet They... | |
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But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the boiling tide. " Come back, come back, Horatius ! 
